Floyd Skloot Quotes

Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.

Floyd Skloot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 6, 1947

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When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.

Ann-Margret

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You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.

Jeff Bridges

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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Spiro T. Agnew

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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright

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Cheap natural gas is a big stimulus to petrochemical production and a meaningful one for all U.S. manufacturing.

Roger Altman

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Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

Mike Singletary

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I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.

Michael Robotham

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One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

Michael Mandelbaum

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When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day.

Julia Cameron

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In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

Juan Goytisolo

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My heart is just being in this industry. I've been lucky enough to have been in films, plays, and on radio.

Bradley Walsh

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