X. J. Kennedy Quotes

The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

X. J. Kennedy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 21, 1929

Topics

AttitudeChildrenPoetryLookGo

It's quite clear we've got strong franchises at the core of this company.

John L. Flannery

StrongCompanyGotCoreClearQuite

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

Michael Crawford

LifeSuccessFailureBeginningLearn

Change does happen, you know?

John Wesley Shipp

ChangeYouKnowHappenDoes

I don't have any big regrets.

Simon Callow

RegretsBigAny

'The Master and Margarita' is deeply to do with the unconscious. It is a story about a man who writes a story in a time when he's not supposed to write that story: the story of Pontius Pilate.

Simon McBurney

TimeManStoryWriteMasterWho

The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands.

Trent Reznor

BeautyThinkWishLateBearI Wish

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

Dean Rusk

CongressGiveMachineStateHe

A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good.

Claire Cameron

GoodPeopleTroubleThreeTwoJust

Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

MusicThinkMeant To BeLiquidMeant

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

Anne-Marie Duff

YouSayCompassGetActressJust

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

Sheryl Sandberg

LifeWorkBalanceThing

I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.

Shakuntala Devi

UpGrewArea

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by X. J. Kennedy