#presence

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#creator #gifted #i #me #people

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ↗

— James Douglas

#dark #dawn #garden #good #good idea

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#design #life #may #ourselves #presence

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#man #metal #mind #native #presence

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#held #imply #importance #introduced #introduction

I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. 'This is Greg Norman's orange peel!' ↗

— Phil Mickelson

#came #down #fan #first #forget

I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it's their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence. ↗

— John Otway

#buying #choose #even #fans #get

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#had #pacific #power #presence #states

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#large #presence #smaller #throughout #world