Heather Mchugh Quotes

#1. Given a blank we can't help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.

Heather McHugh

#2. It was obvious from their expressions that they believed the wellbeing of R.'s inhabitants was endangered by my youth. The visit was very enjoyable, but the horror of the previous night still clung to me.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#3. One last question," Sprite said. "Who are you? Special Forces? CIA? Xenobiologist?" "I used to play a lot of World of Warcraft.

Edward W. Robertson

#4. At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took ...

Heather McHugh

#5. Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

James Joyce

#6. I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.

Heather McHugh

#7. It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. I think it's important to not always wear pants and not always wear dresses. You should and mix that up.

Emma Roberts

#9. If you find someone you're in love with that's also your friend, wouldn't that be the greatest benefit.

Ellie Hart

#10. I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want ... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull.

Heather McHugh

#11. I am glad to be here to create a new history in our industry. I'm very proud of this.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#12. It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

Nathanael Emmons

#13. I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.

Anzia Yezierska

#14. Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

#15. The best knowledge workers are working for more than money.

Marshall Goldsmith

#16. I('m the woman who) always forgot where she was-in a state, in a sentence.

Heather McHugh