Quotes of: Emily Keyword

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Douglas Coupland

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems

It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.

Ellen Malcolm

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Lucius Accius

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

Michael Cunningham

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Nicolas Chamfort

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Christopher Morley

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Anne Stevenson

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

C. K. Williams

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

Franz Wright

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Natasha Trethewey

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

Natasha Trethewey

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

Ang Lee

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano De Crescenzo

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

Rashida Jones

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

Rod McKuen

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

Taylor Caldwell

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Terry Pratchett