Robert Polito Quotes

#1. You won't write, won't ya??
I just focus on the negative!

Deyth Banger

#2. I need a life that isn't just about needing to escape my life.

Robert Polito

#3. For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

Nancy Kress

#4. I have a strong attachment to Harvard.

Eric Maskin

#5. I feel like I've reached a point where music has become just as much a priority to me as my acting, and I'm glad to feel that way.

Keke Palmer

#6. Is this how you got around before?" Vida wondered aloud. "It is a miracle you dumbasses survived.

Alexandra Bracken

#7. If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#8. Remember: if you can see the Empire State Building,
The Empire State Building can see you.

Robert Polito

#9. Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to him: "Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips." HOSEA 14: 2

Anne Graham Lotz

#10. There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things

Alex Turner

#11. Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.

Jane Campion

#12. You never think of films being really creepy that you're in because you just remember the funny stuff.

Pell James

#13. And then the men lay down and put their heads in the girls' laps and looked up into their faces. And they smiled at each other, a tired and peaceful and wonderful secret.

John Steinbeck