John Hewitt Poet Quotes & Sayings

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing. — Evan Esar

If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited. — Kate O'Mara

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. — Margaret J. Wheatley

When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language. Every time I would order something at Starbucks, they would go, 'Huh? What did you say?' My accent was an issue and my low voice was as well. They thought I should be more girlie. But that's who I am. — Miley Cyrus

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis. — Margaret Wander Bonanno

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me. — Shane Claiborne

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians. — Ricky Jay

One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations. — Ethan Hawke

Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything that is not in the service of a need, there is no conflict on our planet at the level of needs. We all have the same needs. The problem is in strategies for meeting the needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Let's get deeper.
Let's go past the flesh.
It takes thought, to really get into this. — Shaune Bordere

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got. — Heidi Klum