Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.
Leonard Cohen
RestTryingLookWantGenuineReal
The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
Amartya Sen
SchoolWorldRestHeritageIndia
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
Paulo Coelho
I AmWorldRestStubbornAmCent
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
Bruce Springsteen
MusicRestConnectionKnowRockWhy
I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.
Alexander Wang
WorkTeamRestSaidKindCompany
These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
Mercedes Lackey
LifeFamilyRestHellMy LifeEarth
It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
Viggo Mortensen
MindRestDieBackKidAlways
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
Jonathan Carroll
BookRestAlwaysPointWherePlot
To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but vital only insofar as such detail is in the service of a richly imagined story, rather than in the service of good botany or good philosophy or good geography.
Tim O'Brien
GoodServiceDetailRestStoryOnly
If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.
Eric San
MusicInfluenceRestThinkAmerican
Growing up South African, I was comparatively in a world of privilege, especially being the youngest and being figuratively wrapped up in cotton wool by the rest of the family.
Jodi Balfour
FamilyGrowing UpWorldRestGrowing
The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.
Kaya Scodelario
LifeRestExpectationsThinkYouUp
I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.
Ruth Ann Minner
LifeBelieveRestLearnYouYoung
The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
Ian MacKaye
LifeGreatTimeRestMy LifeYou
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.
Antonio Banderas
LifeMeRestMy LifeForgetMovies
My agent and I try to be picky with roles so that I can drive my career in different directions and be different, creative characters. I want to be an actor for the rest of my life and to have fun with my career. So I told him that I wish I could do a movie that already has a fan base. And then 'Twilight' came along!
Kellan Lutz
LifeCreativeFunDriveRestWish
Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.
Alden Ehrenreich
CharacterPastChallengesRestYou
I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.
John Sweeney
LifeMeRestEndMy LifeWish
We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.
Walid Jumblatt
RestWillSeeBehindBarsUntil
It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.
Johnny Kidd
RestStoryYouKnowTestTake
Ordinarily during the stage of your life when you're going through your adolescence and you're completely awkward and uncomfortable, the rest of the world isn't watching you with bated breath. It's different when you're an actor and you choose to work your way through that period because it only makes it worse.
Tina Majorino
LifeWorkWorldRestYouChoose
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway
LifeManRestEnoughYouYoung
There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.
Jo Brand
PeopleWorldRestBackGoTwo
I remember walking onstage in the first performance, and something hit me like a brick wall, and I just knew at that moment that this is something I had to do for the rest of my life, and I've never looked back.
Katherine McNamara
LifeMomentMePerformanceRest
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