David Lehman Quotes

#1. The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

Denis Diderot

#2. Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Don't mind Mallory. She's a sweetheart, once you get past the fact that she's a horrible person.

Rick Riordan

#4. Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

David Burge

#5. What would you have today if you woke up with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?" He wondered

J. Courtney Sullivan

#6. You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

Knute Nelson

#7. Pity, mercy, compassion."
"Thats's all I'm afraid," said Alfred.
"That is everything," said the phantasm.

Margaret Weis

#8. How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp.
Psalm

David Lehman

#9. There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.

David Lehman

#10. The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

David Lehman

#11. If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.

David Lehman

#12. Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

Joschka Fischer

#13. I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques.

David Lehman

#14. Damn it feels good to see people up on it.

Biz Markie

#15. If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

David Lehman

#16. Wizard's Ninth Rule
A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

Terry Goodkind

#17. A city of unarmed dreamers huddling beneath angry skies.

Marcus Sakey

#18. The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.

David Malpass

#19. Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

David Lehman

#20. Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

David Lehman

#21. Over the years, that investors continued to fund Pike's grandiose predictions, the price of coal was high enough to send men day after day into a flawed & dangerous place. Now that they are dead the price is not high enough to get them out

Rebecca Macfie

#22. The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

Richard Branson

#23. A life without tragedy would not be worth living. We

Edward Abbey

#24. Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

David Lehman