Pinsky Poet Quotes & Sayings

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. — Anne Rice

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. — Kurt Vonnegut

The big lesson about loving someone was coming to understand that when love ended for one person, it ended for both people. — Elizabeth George

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes. — Warren Buffett

The fantasy that accompanies and generates the anticipation that precedes the crime is always more stimulating than the immediate aftermath of the crime itself. — Ted Bundy

It may well have been, too, that the smiling moderation with which she faced and answered these blasphemies, that this tender and hypocritical rebuke appeared to her frank and generous nature as a particularly shameful and seductive form of that criminal attitude towards life which she was endeavouring to adopt. But she could not resist the attraction of being treated with affection by a woman who had just shewn herself so implacable towards the defenceless dead; she sprang on to the knees of her friend and held out a chaste brow to be kissed; ... — Marcel Proust

Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day. — Natalie Cole

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think. — Robert Pinsky

The theory of man-made global warming and climate change based on human greenhouse gas emissions is the greatest international scientific fraud ever perpetrated on the world's citizens! — John Casey

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best. — Julianna Baggott

The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there! — Sid Waddell

If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument. — Robert Pinsky

I prefer to look at it another way-which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back. — Veronica Roth

Busman's holiday is an expression which refers to when people do the same thing on vacation that they do in their everyday lives, such as plumbers who visit the Museum of Sinks, or villains who disguise themselves even on their days off. — Lemony Snicket

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make. — Michelle Shocked

Close-Up has affected later films that I've made. — Abbas Kiarostami