#tradition

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#along #big #books #came #century

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work. ↗

— Peter Davison

#performance #poetic #poets #read #real

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#between #both #connections #folk #i

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#began #british #entering #felt #first

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#had #i #neat #parents #people

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#dublin #history #music #place #sense

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#books #did #falling #falling in love #i

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway. ↗

— Tim Vine

#ask #childhood #comics #conscious #conscious effort

The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to. ↗

— Mike Weir

#courses #event #every #fan #forward