A. R. Ammons Quotes

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A. R. Ammons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1926 - February 25, 2001

Topics

ExperienceOpinionEverythingDirect

I love Bill Murray, but I'm not quite Bill Murray. I wish!

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

LoveWishI WishQuiteI LoveBill

The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.

Steve Whitmire

MeLanguageDoingBodyKindWay

On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

Rob Sheffield

JobTableSkillsSittingWillTalk

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

Marvin Hamlisch

WeatherSongI CanNewsGarbageUp

In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.

Michael Ovitz

BusinessTogetherGovernmentSchool

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

PeopleFeelYouStereotypesPlot

I had spent four years at Le Havre, and when they told me they weren't keeping me, because I wasn't good for the second division, that hit me hard.

Dimitri Payet

GoodMeHardYearsDivisionFour

I think we've found a better solution on North Haven and Vinalhaven: Instead of paying increasing expensive electric bills every month, with the money going out of our community, out of state, and even out of the country, the wind turbines bring the promise of decades of steady rates with the money staying right here.

Chellie Pingree

CommunityMoneyWindThinkBetter

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

William Gibson

WritingStartDirectionNothingIdea

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

Peter Billingsley

MeStoryChristmasAlwaysPersonally

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

Rip Taylor

ShoulderShowBrokeTonightSupposed

Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

Richard Jefferies

LifeNowEternityImmortal

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