Lyn Hejinian Quotes

#1. Once the fifth set comes, it's a matter of nerves.

Pete Sampras

#2. Shoulder. They weigh that much. Tyler's a banquet waiter,

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

Lyn Hejinian

#4. Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

Roberto Rossellini

#5. It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

Art Rust Jr.

#6. Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on,
let's say that every possibility waits

Lyn Hejinian

#7. The Drowned Gods makes men," old Aaron Redhand said, "thousands of years ago." "But it's men who make crowns.

George R R Martin

#8. I've been re-created by a designer who loves to recycle. My

Danielle Strickland

#9. People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

Lyn Hejinian

#10. In every country is a word which attempts the sound of cats, to match an inisolable portrait in the clouds to a din in the air. But the constant noise is not an omen of music to come.

Lyn Hejinian

#11. I have way too many candles. There's always a candle burning at home.

Erin Heatherton

#12. To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

Lyn Hejinian

#13. A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to know this as politics, because it plays like the work of one person, but nothing is isolated in history
certain humans are situations.

Lyn Hejinian

#14. As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#15. Allegories are told with a purpose whose possibility is lost
Until a potato-eater appears and eats potatoes

Lyn Hejinian

#16. The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

Lyn Hejinian

#17. I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days.

Bill Belichick

#18. Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way men greet men. Sometimes walking is just such elated pumping.

Lyn Hejinian

#19. The idea that literary theorists killed poetry dead because with their shrivelled hearts and swollen brains they are incapable of spotting a metaphor, let alone a tender feeling, is on of the more obtuse critical platitudes of our time.

Terry Eagleton

#20. Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?

Emily Giffin

#21. You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

Alain Prost

#22. A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

Lyn Hejinian

#23. I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

Lyn Hejinian

#24. Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.

Shiri Appleby

#25. The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

Pearl S. Buck

#26. The dread had not left my soul.

Neil Gaiman