Way Quotes - Page 640

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.

The only way out is to go through

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?

If you have information that a company is not as good as its stock market valuation, you don't have a way to sell that stock unless you already own it. And so that information doesn't get incorporated in the company's stock price as fast if you don't allow short selling.

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.

Everyone, young and old, was responding to [Frank] Sinatra. So, the first time that I physically remember, it was as a youth. He always seemed to be there, let me put it that way. I can't remember the exact first time, but I can remember the effect his voice had on me.

I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting.

That's what [Frank] Sinatra did. He was the first artist to come out in a major way against anti-Semitism and racial bigotry. And those are huge things back in the 50s and 60s and 70s - and he was doing this in the 40s.

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

Stalking the Angel [Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over." [Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?" [Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me.

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.

Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.

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

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.