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There was something compelling about a man who refused to wear pants in winter. — Kai Strand

Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway?
Can anyone die without even a little? — Mark Strand

Each person is a strand of story. — Neil Gaiman

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. — Paul Strand

Photography ... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919) — Paul Strand

I will never stop being pissed. He has now created a 'lifetime of seeking vengeance' scenario. — Jeff Strand

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing. — Mark Strand

He didn't seem like somebody you'd want to invite to a party unless you'd already given up on it. — Jeff Strand

I won't say the pain was indescribable, since there are plenty of good descriptive words: excruciating, agonizing, unbearable, and so on. — Jeff Strand

When you write, you are telling a story ... to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself ... over and over again. — Kai Strand

Sometimes getting information from him was like unraveling a carpet one strand at a time. — Sabrina Jeffries

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness. — Mark Strand

Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation — Paul Strand

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! — Walter Scott

Arisaid. A night breeze brushed a strand of hair across my face. — Diana Gabaldon

You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA. — Craig Venter

Hazen had already begun to mix her a martini. She watched approvingly. "Martinis make everything worthwhile, don't they?" she said, smiling at Strand. — Irwin Shaw

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going. — Ashwin Sanghi

I had no idea what was going on, but I knew that fighting Tybalt wouldn't get me out of the darkness. It would strand me there. — Seanan McGuire

I fell asleep right away. It was a deep sleep, the kind I used to enjoy in study hall. — Jeff Strand

The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that. — Michael Palin

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way. — Mark Strand

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful. — Mark Strand

Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time
Is becoming the architecture of the next time. — Mark Strand

Ah, to that far distant strand
Bridge there was not to convey,
Not a bark was near at hand,
Yet true love soon found the way. — Friedrich Schiller

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. — Mark Strand

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. — Paul Strand

All good art is abstract in its structure. — Paul Strand

As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. — Virginia Woolf

Time tells me what I am.
I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains. — Mark Strand

A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush — Spike Milligan

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do,
In spider's web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken strand to you
For my returning. — E.B. White

Is someone in my tree?" I fought panic, and through Herculean effort managed to keep my pants dry. "No," I answered. She wasn't fooled. — Jeff Strand

Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken. — Stephen R. Covey

Unlock a child's imagination through the power of words. — Kai Strand

On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,
My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I feel that anything is possible in a poem. — Mark Strand

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb. — Mark Strand

Entwined with the strand of conservatism in the Democratic party is the strand of empiricism. — Dean Acheson

How about we meet tomorrow at Von's Gym, 6 A.M.?" I'd heard rumors that such an hour of the morning existed, but thus far it had been unconfirmed. — Jeff Strand

Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew. — Chris Galford

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. — Mark Strand

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. — Mark Strand

The braid is always stronger than the strand. — Ryan Graudin

Each moment is a place
you've never been. — Mark Strand

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. — Walter Scott

Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice. — Jeff Strand

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. — Mark Strand

But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me. — Nicholas Sparks

We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole. — Mark Strand

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life. — Paul Strand

tamed his blond hair by cropping it short, but a rebellious sun-streaked strand curls over one tawny brow. Tall, broad-shouldered, — Magda Alexander

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. — Mark Strand

I haven't met God and I haven't been to heaven, so I'm skeptical, — Mark Strand

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world. — Paul Strand

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — James Bovard

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been. — Mark Strand

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. — Mark Strand

The mustard lined his lips. At one point a strand of sauerkraut was smeared against his chin. — Paul Zindel

We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it. — Mark Strand

Why does the thin grey strand
Floating up from the forgotten
Cigarette between my fingers,
Why does it trouble me? — D.H. Lawrence

A strong strand throughout the Bible stresses that you are to GIVE to needs and put LIMITS on sin. Boundaries help you do just that. — Henry Cloud

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn't destroyed them. — Paul Strand

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. — Paul Strand

All light is available light. — Paul Strand

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. — William Morris

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions. — Mark Strand

Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like
mercury then gathered up only at the last moment. — Jeanette Winterson

Her mother walk all the way back to their car, hand in hand, like two jewels on a delicate strand that might at any moment be broken. — Jodi Picoult

God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead. — Jay Parini

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand. — Winston Churchill

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. — Paul Strand

Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand. — Deborah Moggach

It's very hard to write humor. — Mark Strand

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist. — Paul Strand

But being hit in the face with monkey poo is something that, deep inside, we all believe happens only to other people. — Jeff Strand

I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring. — Ivan Doig

Like all beings, I will eventually add my energy and matter and light to the fabric of the universe, a single strand in its amazing tapestry. — Julia Butler

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. — Mark Strand

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. — Mark Strand

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important. — Paul Strand

When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence. — Mark Strand

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). — O. Henry

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again. — Mark Strand

This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them. — Douglas Wilson

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. — William Lilly

I grow into my death.
My life is small
and getting smaller. The world is green.
Nothing is all. — Mark Strand

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand. — Paul Strand

There is no end to what we can learn. The book out there
Tells us as much, and was never written with us in mind. — Mark Strand

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger. — Paul Strand

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world. — Paul Strand

I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times. — Dick Dale

What was he supposed to do besides break the living room window? Stand outside whacking off while she grabbed a cell phone and called for help? — Jeff Strand

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand. — Davis Bunn

Love is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity. — Frederick Lenz

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now. — Peter York

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort
Of being strangers, at least to ourselves. — Mark Strand

For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better. — Mark Strand

Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light. — Mark Strand