Top 14 Just Mike The Poet Quotes
#1. In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
Caroline Kennedy
#2. When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a poet, it's all about love and pain, but if you're a kid it's, "Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?"
Mike Birbiglia
#3. I never expected i, in the first place, when I started playing tennis, that I would ever carry the flag into the Olympic Stadium for an Olympic Games ... So for me that was a surprise and a huge honor in my life to be able to represent Switzerland.
Roger Federer
#4. I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.
Cynthia Nixon
#5. I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.
Mike Patton
#6. Begging your pardon,' groused the Yeti, 'but I believe you haven't the first idea of what's happened to me or the weather in Fairyland or the least fact about the least thing in the known universe. Just my opinion, of course.
Catherynne M Valente
#7. Tis but a day we sojourn here below,
And all the gain we get is grief and woe,
Then, leaving our life's riddles all unsolved,
And burdened with regrets, we have to go.
Omar Khayyam
#8. In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity.
Lionel Shriver
#9. Death had brought an end to their misery. Would nothing but a visitation from that same dark angel bring and end to mine?
Rick Yancey
#11. I know what the fear is.
The fear is not for what is lost.
What is lost is already in the wall.
What is lost is already behind the locked doors.
The fear is for what is still to be lost.
Joan Didion
#13. When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.
Christina Aguilera
#14. Beautiful. "But if we get out of here and you're . . . uh . . . old and - " ugly - "sixty years old or something . . .
Mary Connealy