"The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens."

-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Beauty Quotes #Examination Quotes #Increase Quotes

“The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.”
“I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.”
“Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting two.”
“I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.”
“I have always loved too much, or not enough.”

Source : Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.
“You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.”
“I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.”
“They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.”

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