Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Author: A. R. Ammons |
It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again. Author: Adrian Edmondson |
I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow. Author: Agnetha Faltskog |
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset. Author: Aishwarya Rai |
I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.' Author: Al Franken |
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal. Author: Al Stewart |
It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. Author: Alan Alda |
Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me! Author: Alan Vega |
After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn. Author: Albert Hofmann |
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. Author: Alexander Smith |
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. Author: Alexis de Tocqueville |
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. Author: Alfred Russel Wallace |
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. Author: Alice Walker |
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. Author: Amy Sedaris |
I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes. Author: Amy Tan |
I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side. Author: Andy Pick |
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper. Author: Andy Rooney |
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept. Author: Anne McCaffrey |
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction. Author: Arthur Keith |
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer |
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. Author: Asa Gray |
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes. Author: Barbara Sher |
We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into. Author: Barry Gibb |
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. Author: Benjamin Franklin |
If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself. Author: Beverley Mitchell |
I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction. Author: Bill Kurtis |
With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there. Author: Billy Koch |
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus. Author: Bishop Robert South |
Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes. Author: Blythe Danner |
We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up. Author: Bob Weir |
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters. Author: Boris Johnson |
Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation. Author: Boris Yeltsin |
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. Author: Boris Yeltsin |
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. Author: Brendan Behan |
I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore. Author: Brian Lumley |
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear. Author: Brian May |
When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you. Author: Brian Moore |
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. Author: Bruce Barton |
We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that. Author: Bruce Johnston |
Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively. Author: Bubba Sparxxx |
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen Topics: Art |
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. Author: Charles Dudley Warner |
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. Author: Charles Horton Cooley |
Because I get nervous all the time. It's weird but I think it's fun and it's refreshing. It's always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything. Author: Christina Milian |
It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy. Author: Daniel Craig |
I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream "secular" press has been very, very nice. Author: Daniel Smith |
When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since. Author: Darrell Royal |
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring. Author: David Brin |
By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher. Author: David F. Houston |
My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily. Author: David Hasselhoff |
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. Author: David R. Brower |
I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. Author: Dean Koontz |
Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations. Author: Dean Rusk |
I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away. Author: Debbi Fields |
I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience. Author: Deborah Cox |
It's always refreshing to step into another time. Author: Diane Lane |
Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint. Author: Don Henley |
Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out. Author: Donna Shalala |
In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program. Author: Donnie Wahlberg |
A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur. Author: Douglas Hurd |
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims. Author: Douglas Jerrold |
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches. Author: Douglas Wood |
What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business. Author: Ed O'Brien |
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records. Author: Edie Brickell |
The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years. Author: Ednita Nazario |
There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me. Author: Edward Weston |
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time. Author: Ellen Burstyn |
You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward. Author: Elvis Stojko |
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Author: Emil Nolde |
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching. Author: Emily Carr |
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. Author: Eric Allin Cornell |
It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material. Author: Eric Bogosian |
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Author: Erich Fromm |
When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman. Author: Erich Leinsdorf |
My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs. Author: Erika Slezak |
I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival. Author: Eva Herzigova |
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair. Author: Evel Knievel |
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. Author: Fran Lebowitz |
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years. Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Author: Franz Kafka |
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. Author: Garrett Hardin |
That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice. Author: Garth Brooks |
You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire. Author: Garth Brooks |
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. Author: Gaston Bachelard |
A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar. Author: Gene Tunney |
He was as fresh as is the month of May. Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness. Author: George Aiken |
The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first. Author: George Combe |
The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too. Author: George Grove |
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. Author: George MacDonald |
Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force. Author: Gerd von Rundstedt |
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. Author: Gertrude Jekyll |
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness. Author: Giacomo Casanova |
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. Author: Gore Vidal |
I do the cooking at home. Where we eat no more than 100 grams of meat a day and have 'tons' of fresh vegetables. I prepare the vegetables with a wide range of herbs, spices and such. We also keep on hand lots of fruit, yogurt and great breads. Author: Graham Kerr |
I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!! Author: Grey DeLisle |
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound. Author: Griffin Dunne |
It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew. Author: Gustav Mahler |
I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production. Author: Guy Laliberte |