Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.
People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?
Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.
It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.
If you love language, it will love you back.
Knowledge is our ultimate good.
I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
I don't like auditions. I feel like they're a very unnatural setting and it's a very unsettling experience. Because you can't help but walk in and feel like you're trying to prove yourself to people. And you should just walk in and be.