Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

John Frusciante

FriendshipCreativeMePersonHard

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

Maurice Sendak

ArtDeathMeFine ArtFineBore

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

Ani DiFranco

MusicConnectionsJust BecauseMean

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Steve Finley

MindSafetySightOutGuardLaws

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

Steven Spielberg

FeelMoviesNothingOutGoingLike

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.

Rudy Giuliani

MemoriesPolicePeopleYouBack

Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.

Mary Pierce

PatienceYouSometimesNeedSee

From casting to hiring to awards races like the Emmys, taking active steps toward inclusion will make for richer stories, a stronger democracy, and a better world.

Jay Duplass

DemocracyWorldBetterStrongerWill

Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

Jarvis Cocker

PeopleMeSongUniverseYouSilver

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.

Dolly Parton

MeGayKindBigLoyalBeen

There used to be a few 'Great Santinis', but now there's many 'Great Santinis'.

Douglas Brunt

GreatNowUsedManyFew

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Chris Elliott

MeTelevisionMoreJustAccepted

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