Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

Patrick Kavanagh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: October 21, 1904 - November 30, 1967

Topics

LifeWaterSpringRiverLikeRather

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

Matthew McConaughey

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I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play?

Steve Sabol

TimeFootballWomanFaceThought

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

Robert Atkins

PowerPeopleObesityCreated

God bless my mother; I know you're looking down on me.

Ron Cephas Jones

MotherGodMeLookingYouDown

I need insulin to stay alive. It's just therapy to keep going. What I can do is make sure that I keep my blood sugar down to a reasonable level. I can exercise, and I can eat properly. And insulin plays a very big part in that.

Mary Tyler Moore

Keep GoingExerciseDownI CanAlive

I'm wary of the whole Los Angeles scene. I'm a California kid, but there's a difference between California and Los Angeles. L.A. is urban. California is restorative.

Jason Lewis

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I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, where it's all about being comfortable. I try to bring that undercurrent to what I do. It's great to have beautiful, dressed-up clothes that still feel casual.

Chris Benz

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I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts.

Chris Stapleton

MusicMagicYouFlawsSoundHuman

The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle - it shows people that it's big business against the people.

Bonnie Raitt

BusinessStrugglePeopleEnergy

The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.

Brian Sutton-Smith

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An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Peter Brook

FindingYouEarthNowJesus Christ

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

Nicola Sturgeon

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