#my

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. ↗

— James Schuyler

#apt #author #because #comment #consider

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#half #i #just #just living #life

I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it. ↗

— Luke Scott

#away #carried #gun #handle #how

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would. ↗

— Ted Shackelford

#could #day #every #every day #i

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. ↗

— Thomas Howard

#earnestness #enough #forever #fright #hence

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good? ↗

— Joseph Howe

#before #believe #down #good #i

I would like to establish myself. I don't want to just have a moment. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#i #just #like #moment #myself

I never saw myself going to college. Even when I was looking at different schools, I was like, this really isn't right. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#different #different schools #even #going #i

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#england #first #i #i was born #life

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia. ↗

— Shakira

#am #american #anyone #bother #colombia