Poet Rod Mckuen Quotes

#1. After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

Margaret Chan

#2. A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

Rod McKuen

#3. Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

Steve Guttenberg

#4. I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#5. The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.

Pietro Mascagni

#6. Inspiration is everywhere so don't get trapped in reading and watching too much. Get out. Talk to people, friends, family, loved ones. Draw inspiration from everyday life. It has inexhaustible references and is always original.

Arnold Arre

#7. The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.

James G. Frazer

#8. I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

Confucius

#9. The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

William Godwin

#10. The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. People are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

Sonia Johnson

#12. Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.

Gena Showalter