Jane Hirshfield Quotes

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.

Jane Hirshfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 24, 1953

Topics

ArtWantLivingAlwaysWhatever

Here's where it goes with Led Zeppelin. It didn't matter what was going on around us, because the character of Led Zeppelin's music was so strong.

Jimmy Page

MusicCharacterStrongMatterGoing

We're all sinners, every one of us. We've all done things we wish we hadn't.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

WishDoneThingsUsSinnersEvery

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

Romesh Gunesekera

LiveWorldFastNowWillHistorical

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

Roy Ayers

YearsBigLikeLongestLabel

I have been driven demented in my career.

Lord Mountbatten

CareerDrivenBeenDemented

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

GreatMaturityVotingCommon Sense

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

Chico Hamilton

TryingSoundThingsEchoJustLike

Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

Cherie Blair

GoodWomenExperienceDemocracyRun

If I was to feel guilty about something, it would be the fact I haven't done enough. I wish there was a million Roman Reigns. So that I could take them all out at once. Then I would feel like I've accomplished something.

Bray Wyatt

FeelWishEnoughGuiltyDoneI Wish

I don't know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate - it feels like I'm singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

Aurora

LifeMeSingingFeelMy LifeLook

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

WorkGoodMeGood WorkJealousFeel

I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study.

Sun Yat-sen

ScienceMathematicsMedicalYouth

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