Onnie Mcintyre 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

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful. — Simon Sinek

Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus. — Marilyn Hacker

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself. — Jerry Seinfeld

I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point. — Julie Andrews

The best practice is to be around people who absolutely disagree. Grace in conflict is a study in love. — Bryant McGill

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem. — Hillary Clinton

Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Isobel's head popped up. "What does 'sagacious' mean?"
"Sagacious," he said, writing, "adjective describing someone in possession of acute mental faculties. Also describing one who might, in a bookstore, think to get up and locate an actual dictionary instead of asking a billion questions. — Kelly Creagh