All Quotes

I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
‐‐ C. K. Williams

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
‐‐ Carol Ann Duffy

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
‐‐ Peter Davison

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

I think poetry is best read to oneself.
‐‐ Rickie Lee Jones

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

I think poetry, rather than suffering, is more and more sufficient to the needs of our society. It's one of the reasons so much of it is, for want of a better term, 'surreal.'
‐‐ Paul Muldoon

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
‐‐ Francine Prose

I think Polanski's an amazing director.
‐‐ David Duchovny

I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a whole, and giving them an opportunity to get off to a fresh start, to become self-sufficient, to lead safe, constructive lives.
‐‐ Janet Reno

I think political correctness is a moving line.
‐‐ Clive Anderson

I think political people are afraid of me.
‐‐ Mark Cuban

I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.
‐‐ Sebastian Junger

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.
‐‐ Paul Weller

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.
‐‐ Lauren Bush

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.
‐‐ Seth Gordon

I think politicians nationwide have earned a reputation sometimes that is very unfavorable because they will say things and then do something else when they get into office.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

I think politicians really go with the tide.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
‐‐ Saffron Burrows

I think politics come out of psychology.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.
‐‐ Chester Brown

I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.
‐‐ Nicolle Wallace

I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.
‐‐ Nandan Nilekani

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
‐‐ Ed Rendell

I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.
‐‐ Facundo Pieres

I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.
‐‐ Ricki-Lee Coulter

I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.
‐‐ Nick Rhodes

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.
‐‐ Lykke Li

I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
‐‐ Damon Albarn

I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with 'Royals.' I think that song changed everything in the pop scene. All of the sudden, alternative pop music became pop music.
‐‐ Troye Sivan

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
‐‐ Bing Crosby

I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in some way someday, and that they'll face horrible things along the way, I don't know - I think that's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing.
‐‐ Scott M. Gimple

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.
‐‐ Susanne Bier

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.
‐‐ Peter Shaffer

I think possibly what people working for one hate the most is indecision. Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. The most important thing I can do is try and make myself very clearly understood.
‐‐ Anna Wintour

I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible.
‐‐ Krist Novoselic

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
‐‐ Palaniappan Chidambaram

I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.
‐‐ Scarlett Thomas

I think pregnancy is a huge responsibility.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
‐‐ Mara Brock Akil

I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.
‐‐ Keith Stanfield

I think president after president has always stood behind Israel. We always will. They're our ally there. And we have to do whatever we can help them to protect their citizens.
‐‐ Dutch Ruppersberger

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.
‐‐ Martin Sheen