Tiferet Quotes

#1. To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Alan Paton

#2. I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never translate poetry - it's too hard, there are too many levels. Not that prose doesn't have many levels, but it's more grounded.

Ann Goldstein

#3. As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.

Snoop Dogg

#4. I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized ... A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is.

William Carlos Williams

#5. I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

Candice Swanepoel

#6. The intimate and meditative form that Plutarch became known for was completely new in his day.

John D'Agata

#7. By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press.

Donald Hall

#8. Didn't know what to say but I did know what to think and that was that Jake Spear was ... the ... bomb.

Kristen Ashley