Tangential Speech Quotes & Sayings

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine. — Alexander Pope

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role. — Kevin Hart

Thus freedom now so seldom wakes, The only throb she gives, Is when some heart indignant breaks, To show that still she lives. THOMAS MOORE — Hugh Laurie

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it. — Miranda Lambert

And try letting yourself be carried away by your feelings, blindly, without reflection, without a primary cause, repelling consciousness at least for a time, hate or love, if only not to sit with your hands folded. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease ... He is an absolutely reprehensible person. — Julianne Malveaux

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique. — Ali MacGraw

The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us. — Adam Davidson

When you listen to good music in the morning makes a good day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship. — Carlos P. Romulo

It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for. — Will Rogers

To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind. — Brendon Burchard