#bi

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#arriving #because #begin #bird #dragons

Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #being #between #birds #came

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#downs #effective #effective way #far #giving

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization. ↗

— Randall Terry

#civilization #gave #god #law #stability

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album. ↗

— Sonny Terry

#album #big #bought #cotton #curve

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. ↗

— Sonny Terry

#closest #culture #deep #deep way #express

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#crowd #entertainer #guess #i #i love

Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#bit #command #dazed #feeling #first

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#born #concentrate #hard #i #i was born