"All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

#Idlers Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.”
“The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.”
“Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.”
“It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it,”
“A voice that was never wanted has become a voice for so many people who donâ€™t have one.”
“One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.”
“I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.”
“If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.”

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