Ivry Quotes & Sayings

What the poet does is as ordinary and mysterious as digesting. I question. I break life down. I impose chaos on order. For instance, we think we know how food is ingested, digested, divided into energy and excrement. The neat theory, however, is one thing; control of the process is another; consciousness of the process yet another. Are we aware of protein in the stomach being acted on by pepsin, the appropriate enzyme? Digestion, thinking and breathing are all functions we perform without knowing how we perform them. The body is a dark continent. The mind is another. So I can say very little about what I do. I accept nothing as read. I attack the pretence that we know how things work, whether they happen to be the action of saliva or sexual love from adolescence to old age. — Craig Raine

It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work. — Mike Honda

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance. — Eric Hoffer

And just like that, he's dead. My one love, my soul mate, my forever, is dead. — Jessica Sorensen

He rests in the graveyard of Ivry
a suburb that always
looks like the day
the carnival comes down.
And perhaps only I
still know
that he was alive. — Giuseppe Ungaretti

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling. — Nigel Farage

The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage. — Charles Spurgeon

Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and look for moves with a solid positional foundation ... As often as not, his strategy consists of stifling Black's activity and then winning in an endgame thanks to his superior pawn structure. — Neil McDonald

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors. — Jonathan Swift

I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to. — George Edward Moore

People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn't know were there, even the ones they wouldn't have thought to call beautiful themselves. — Hilary T. Smith

People are proud of their players. — Joe Torre

Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them. — Randy West

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off. — Donald Pleasence

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa. — Jan Chipchase