Edith Sitwell Quotes

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Edith Sitwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 7, 1887 - December 9, 1964

Topics

WaterBabyNeverHotOutGet

Growing up, I learnt to think, 'Let's make it a big night tonight, as you never know what's going to happen next.' So now I have enough, I take too much; when I get the chance to have a fine dinner, I will. And it's had an effect on my health.

John Burnside

HealthGrowing UpDinnerNightThink

My hair can get quite dry, so I condition it in olive oil once a week.

Jerry Hall

HairWeekOilDryGetOlive Oil

I resist life.

Jeff Bridges

LifeResist

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

John Podhoretz

NowPraiseUsBarack ObamaLet Us

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

Stephen Dorff

BooksReadSomeShouldManyScripts

Pregame, you definitely want to carb up.

Rob Gronkowski

YouWantUpDefinitely

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Russell Banks

HistoryStorytellingBeenAllegiance

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

Mika

LifeMusicTimePeopleWritePop

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

Mikaela Shiffrin

WinningOne ThingOlympicMedal

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

Dinah Sheridan

ChildrenMeHusbandSmilingDown

Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn't look like working. I don't have a hammer or anything.

Chelsea Cain

HomeMindMeLookPlaySitting

Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'

Chris Squire

MusicTimeClassical MusicGoingGet

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