Poemataque Quotes & Sayings

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves. — Ray Bradbury

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. — Vladimir Nabokov

And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter!"
"The men of my islands are all a bit mad," William said proudly. — Umberto Eco

A serious student of any instrument who really worked hard could usually learn to play that instrument at the 85 percent level, no matter what the difficulties, he told her, but the last 15 percent on any instrument requires "something out of the ordinary" from a player. — Mary Sue Welsh

I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am. — James St. James

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry. — Robert Bringhurst

I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in indie films and move into playing character leads. — Thomas Ian Nicholas

Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now. — George R R Martin

Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff. — Carl Sagan

I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering. — Brother Ali