Stephen Dobyns I can’t believe there is a poet who hasn’t eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It’s part of the process of selection. – Stephen Dobyns Day Quotes Deciding Quotes Eagerly Quotes Erase Quotes Lunacy Quotes Poet Quotes Process Quotes Selection Quotes Sheer Quotes Word Quotes I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I’d rather not accumulate superstitions. My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.
Jinkx Monsoon The more you embrace the weird crazy things about you, the more you find your tribe. – Jinkx Monsoon
Chris Cubas When ‘Titanic’ came out on VHS, I was working at a Sam’s Club, which is already the worst. I don’t know what you know about working for the Walton family, but it’s horrific. – Chris Cubas
Owen Hart The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you’ve got to be in shape. – Owen Hart
Joe Lieberman Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances – and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely. – Joe Lieberman
Matt Besser In most specials, the performer’s up – not only not surrounded, but up on a stage – and there’s a distance between them and the audience, and I think my comedy doesn’t work as well in that way. – Matt Besser
Add comment