Recitation Quotes (page 3)

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• help
• people
• heart

Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love. Richard Brautigan

• words hurt
• hurt
• writing

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone. Don DeLillo

• sunset
• women
• attention

Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed them organic yogurt by candlelight on a seaside cliff at sunset. Stephen Colbert

• poetry
• through
• coming

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. Natalie Merchant

• short
• prayer
• thinking

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. Carol Ann Duffy

• bored
• avoiding
• world

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. W. Somerset Maugham

• personality
• wall
• respect

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style. James Wolcott

• incomprehensible
• pocket
• picked

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. Robert Anton Wilson

• patriotic
• patriotism
• pledges

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. Jesse Ventura

• smile
• life
• moving forward

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward. Andrea Thompson

• play
• game
• mother father

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. Bernie Taupin

• emotional
• evening
• compel

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. Frank Luntz

• bad
• parents
• kids

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard. Rebecca Lobo

• frustration
• recite
• recital

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. Rod Serling

• expectation
• reciting
• want

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems. Barbara Jordan