Tony Harrison famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.
-- Tony Harrison

#Fighting #Tongue #Articulation
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.
-- Tony Harrison

#Art #Ghetto #Ideas
The ones we choose to love become our anchorwhen the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.
-- Tony Harrison

#Love Is #Ties #Blood
Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.
-- Tony Harrison

#Scare #Want #Becoming
My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I used to get together and do all kinds of crazy stuff on Halloween night. We had a ball starting trouble. Now that I'm more mature I realize that wasn't the right way to act, but it was the time of my life back then.
-- Tony Harrison

#Memories #Crazy #Halloween
I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better.
-- Tony Harrison

#Cousin #Crazy #Believe
I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot.
-- Tony Harrison

#Mom #Creative #Scary
I don't really have one type favorite type of candy. When I was younger we used to always go to the rich neighborhoods where they give out the big candy bars, not the little fun-sized ones. We'd go back two and three times, hit them again and again. They didn't care and we loved it.
-- Tony Harrison

#Fun #Two #Giving

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.
Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.
Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

Tony Harrison famous quotes

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