- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.
- Forged
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how old my phone is, but it was only $10. It is a nice subconscious way of not having the Internet at your fingertips... e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.
- Great Example
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- Nov 07, 2020
LaRon Landry, a safety, is in incredible physical condition - really impressive. Also Anthony Castonzo, the left tackle - I'm very impressed with him. He really sets a great example for how to stay in shape - not only during the off-season but throughout the season, which can be a struggle because of the rhythm of the way things work.
- Despair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made it clear when the Barclays took over the 'Telegraph' that I wanted no editorial position there. There is no way I could take a high-level editorial position at the papers. I have my work for the BBC, and that would be compromised if I did.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from ordinary backgrounds and giving them a world-class education.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020