Ponlop Rinpoches Mother Quotes

#1. And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

Ezra Pound

#2. I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Andrew Motion

#3. The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

Marianne Faithfull

#4. I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.

Jim Rash

#5. In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.

Jerry Saltz

#6. There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, ...

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#7. Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

John Jay Chapman

#8. To speak of sports as a generic activity makes it impossible to discuss what athletes actually do or the physical attributes required to do it. What do all sports have in common apart from breathing? Not much. The term religion is hardly more useful.

Sam Harris

#9. In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this'

Steve Young

#10. Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

Colin R. Davis

#11. Hopefully when he moved his things out of the apartment, he at least took his CDs. I mean, we might be gay, but ... Enya? Really?

Julie James

#12. New York is the best food city in the world.

Joe Bastianich

#13. When you don't hold your pipe with the proper poise, smoking is very hazardous for your image.

Bauvard