Top 100 Sexton's Quotes

#1. All the oxygen of the world was in them.
All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #8564
#2. It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #26564
#3. The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #28697
#4. I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #37812
#5. The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #38286
#6. Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #39423
#7. The man
inside of woman
ties a knot
so that they will
never again be separate ...

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #51289
#8. My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #54088
#9. I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #55310
#10. No one to hate except the slim fish of memory
that slides in and out of my brain.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #56099
#11. I'm an empress.
I wear an apron.
My typewriter writes.
It didn't break the way it warned.
Even crazy, I'm as nice
as a chocolate bar.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #58879
#12. The boys and girls are one tonight.
They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies.
They take off shoes. They turn off the light.
The glimmering creatures are full of lies.
They are eating each other. They are overfed.
At night, alone, I marry the bed.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #64909
#13. The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

Brent Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #66224
#14. I fear I will be ripped open and found unsightly.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #68920
#15. I'm in pain because the day is ending and somehow I am never healing.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #69787
#16. Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #72088
#17. Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #82359
#18. Now he is gone
as you are gone.
But he belongs to me like lost baggage.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #87164
#19. I who was a house full of bowel movement,
I who was a defaced altar,
I who wanted to crawl toward God
could not move nor eat bread.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #87478
#20. Maybe Angelo was right. Maybe there was something. I still suspected it was the wine.

Marie Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #88008
#21. What's missing is the eyeballs
in each of us, but it doesn't matter
because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #90025
#22. That's what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn't worry - poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #92585
#23. I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #94801
#24. As I consider myself nothing nor nobody more than Peter Sellers in Being There or at my liveliest as Inspector Clousseau, it is difficult to make "Susie" sound interesting?

Susie Duncan Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #96273
#25. Two daughters, pretty enough
but with hearts like blackjacks.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #101369
#26. There is no word for time.
Today we will
not think to number another summer
or watch its white bird into the ground.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #103093
#27. When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #108567
#28. I did not know the woman I would be
nor that blood would bloom in me
each month like an exotic flower,
nor that children,
two monuments,
would break from between my legs ...

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #114353
#29. Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #124140
#30. Poetry to me is prayer ...

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #127953
#31. What is a church?-Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

George Crabbe

Sexton's Quotes #128208
#32. I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #132935
#33. Clover['s] eyes are full of language.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #164799
#34. Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #174481
#35. Death's in the good-bye.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #182567
#36. I been in plenty of fights and even more almost-fights. It's all about posturin'. You just gotta act tough."
"What if it didn't work? What if he took a swing at you?"
"Sensai say, 'Big like door, swift like glacier'.

Marie Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #188685
#37. My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job ... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'

Brent Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #199493
#38. Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #218242
#39. To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #228697
#40. Don't worry if they say you're crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It's a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #232417
#41. The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

Brent Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #244653
#42. For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #331366
#43. Bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics.
Or form a Piss Club where we all go
in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #379481
#44. She married the prince
and all went well
except for the fear
the fear of sleep.
Briar Rose
was an insomniac ...
She could not nap
or lie in sleep
without the court chemist
mixing her some knock-out drops
and never in the prince's presence.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #393072
#45. I sit at my desk
each night with no place to go,
opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo,
the whole U.S.,
its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,
through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #406721
#46. Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

Brendan Sexton III

Sexton's Quotes #408494
#47. Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.

Brent Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #412259
#48. I'm lost. And it's my own fault. It's about time I figured out that I can't ask people to keep me found.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #421073
#49. I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year's cupful and downward into a decade's quart and downward into a lifetime's ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman's float.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #480277
#50. We are all writing God's poem.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #484627
#51. Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.

Brent Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #485737
#52. Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #502408
#53. I am teaching ... It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #507271
#54. Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #520319
#55. What's the point of fighting the dollars
when all you need is a warm bed?
When the dog barks you let him in.
All we need is someone to let us in.
And one other thing:
to consider the lilies in the field.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #528777
#56. We do not explain my husband's insane abuse
and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #532156
#57. And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
and when she arrived there were
red-hot iron shoes,
in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
clamped upon her feet.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #562769
#58. I'm definitely a character actor. I've tried to limit anything with a uniform because I've done it so much. There's a lot more I can offer. It's just getting people to see something else.

Brent Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #687976
#59. It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #697116
#60. Suddenly I'm not half the girl
I used to be.
There's a shadow hanging over me ...
From me to you out of my electric devil ...

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #744516
#61. I, in my brand new body,
which was not a woman's yet,
told the stars my questions
and thought God could really see
the heat and the painted light,
elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #756478
#62. I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #759480
#63. In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #802636
#64. And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #814918
#65. Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #841861
#66. I've learned to write by mimicking other writers. It's the way we learned to speak - reproducing sounds - and it's the way, I think, to learn how to write.

Adam Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #891754
#67. Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it's all gone, the whole world falls apart.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #947362
#68. I mean, I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

Brendan Sexton III

Sexton's Quotes #954267
#69. January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps
but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sexton's Quotes #995305
#70. The marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1026195
#71. The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1028479
#72. While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for the South, the modern-day Rangers were created to help rejuvenate a defeated and demoralized U.S. imperialism after the war in Vietnam.

Brendan Sexton III

Sexton's Quotes #1033702
#73. I think you want very much to make this black and white
to make us all out to be sinners or saints. But it's just not that simple. I think what you need to accept is that, just maybe, we're all something else. Maybe we're all something in between.

Marie Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1036894
#74. How you choose to lose yourself matters. Trust me, it's all in the 'how'. It matters a lot.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1050347
#75. Yeah. Art is a lot like sex. It's intimate and personal. It's about being laid bare. About pushing boundaries. It's about making our senses come alive.

Marie Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1057016
#76. I'm not going to tell you you're perfect, because you're not. And I'm not going to tell you I'll follow you to the end of the earth because that's stupid, there's no such thing.

Jackie Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1095200
#77. It's not a question of getting the opportunities, it's a question of noticing that opportunities are there.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1113485
#78. None of them even know who they are. They're just acting out their roles. Being what their parents made them. Always trying to be what's expected. It's exhausting.

Marie Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1159497
#79. Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad.
Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.

Neil Gaiman

Sexton's Quotes #1169723
#80. It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1243170
#81. Church doctrine has no place in secular law. You can't take away people's rights to meet your own religious criteria.

Marie Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1297314
#82. Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like ... you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1326837
#83. Frog has no nerves.
Frog is as old as a cockroach.
Frog is my father's genitals.
Frog is a malformed doorknob.
Frog is a soft bag of green.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1328454
#84. I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1436521
#85. It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1474028
#86. It's all a matter of history.
Brandy is no solace.
Librium only lies me down
like a dead snow queen.
Yes! I am still the criminal.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1543818
#87. It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers. A woman who writes feels too much ...

Augusten Burroughs

Sexton's Quotes #1555238
#88. I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.

Brendan Sexton III

Sexton's Quotes #1560695
#89. Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It's as though I could fly.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1609580
#90. Consider
a girl who keeps slipping off,
arms limp as old carrots,
into the hypnotist's trance,
into a spirit world
speaking with the gift of tongues.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1628030
#91. I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it ...

Emily Bronte

Sexton's Quotes #1630100
#92. This one day her mother gave her
a basket of wine and cake
to take to her grandmother
because she was ill.
Wine and cake?
Where's the aspirin? The penicillin?
Where's the fruit juice?
Peter Rabbit got camomile tea.
But wine and cake it was.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1635423
#93. Has it ever occurred to you," she asked Rachel, "that the constitutional amendment protecting your right to follow Mormon doctrine is the same amendment that's supposed to protect everybody else from being forced to live according to your religious beliefs?

Marie Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1659872
#94. My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1673584
#95. A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1684920
#96. This is what poems are:
with mercy
for the greedy,
they are the tongue's wrangle,
the world's pottage, the rat's star.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1754102
#97. So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

John Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1767758
#98. Every time I get happy
the Nana-hex comes through.
Birds turn into plumber's tools,
a sonnet turns into a dirty joke,
a wind turns into a tracheotomy,
a boat turns into a corpse ...

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1822999
#99. Love your self's self where it lives.

Anne Sexton

Sexton's Quotes #1831698
#100. Griffin: Dude! You get to film-fuck Sienna Sexton! High five!

S.C. Stephens

Sexton's Quotes #1870583

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