I used to pick him up at school in the Poop Moose van. He was always so proud. He's crazy about the ...
DARRYL FENTON I couldn't have made enough.
DARRYL FENTON A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hea...
JAMES FENTON The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a t...
JAMES FENTON The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a sai...
JAMES FENTON The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you ...
JAMES FENTON One does not become a guru by accident.
JAMES FENTON Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic ...
JAMES FENTON It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask,...
JAMES FENTON The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of ...
JAMES FENTON The Mistake


With the mistake your life goes in reverse.
Now you can see exactl...
JAMES FENTON An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredib...
JAMES FENTON Bailing on a company is just something you don't do.
PETER FENTON At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of Engl...
JAMES FENTON My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and...
PETER FENTON Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't...
JAMES FENTON 'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.'...
JAMES FENTON This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme ...
JAMES FENTON Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are ...
JAMES FENTON Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean pe...
JAMES FENTON Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdaine...
JAMES FENTON Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are ...
JAMES FENTON When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel...
JAMES FENTON A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like ...
JAMES FENTON Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is...
JAMES FENTON Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty importe...
JAMES FENTON My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simple...
JAMES FENTON Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put u...
JAMES FENTON For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French...
JAMES FENTON 'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any wo...
JAMES FENTON Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modi...
JAMES FENTON Even 'Jake,' who was missing an eye, was adopted.
ANGIE FENTON Some people dumped two puppies in a bag of dog food on our porch this morning, but now they're in fo...
ANGIE FENTON They played hard. They always play hard. They don't quit and they're a pleasure to coach.
CHRIS FENTON Yeah, you are, you're a bit of a poser.
ROB FENTON In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained...
JAMES FENTON My kids played steady basketball and Summerville's a tough place to win. They did what they had to d...
CHRIS FENTON Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of you...
JAMES FENTON Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called &...
JAMES FENTON You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know...
LIZ FENTON It keeps the gang members off the street.
DANA FENTON When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Gene...
JAMES FENTON A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.
LIZ FENTON There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet...
JAMES FENTON No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dej...
JAMES FENTON The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blan...
JAMES FENTON In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Custo...
PETER FENTON It's always a good story when you can increase customer satisfaction ratings while you are also incr...
DAN FENTON Having an easy to use wireless network is going to make Silicon Valley more competitive when it come...
DAN FENTON He still gets up every day trying to figure out how to keep the things moving that he wants moving.
DAN FENTON It's still very preliminary, except we really like the idea of honoring people, as well as from a to...
DAN FENTON We held them (the Bullfrogs) to just 10 points in the first half. It was one of the best games we've...
CHRIS FENTON The needs in this county, in this region, are so high, the Senate plan is close to addressing the ne...
DANA FENTON Our congressional delegation has really come through for us with PRTC. Over the years we've gotten $...
DANA FENTON They need this additional money…to go ahead and have the railcars manufactured at a low price.
DANA FENTON It will help out access into the base. Right now you have a traffic light there and it backs up into...
DANA FENTON Our congressional delegation wants the state to complete these projects.
DANA FENTON Every year you wait, it costs more.
DANA FENTON At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.
JAMES FENTON In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line...
JAMES FENTON The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is str...
JAMES FENTON This issue is extremely complicated and cannot be resolved unless all parties -- the medical communi...
LAURIE FENTON This is more of a political problem than a science problem right now. Without the ability to develop...
LAURIE FENTON Lung cancer continues to be portrayed as a self-induced cancer that does not deserve public research...
LAURIE FENTON Sadly, it takes her death, coming just seven months after diagnosis, and the fact that she had never...
LAURIE FENTON There has been a very disturbing increase in the number of non-smoking younger women being diagnosed...
LAURIE FENTON I don't know right now. I've been afraid to ask. Because if I ask, then that means it's bad and if I...
LARRY FENTON It's so low that boat traffic for restaurants and places like us, becomes ... it's not there.
LARRY FENTON Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing e...
DARRYL PINCKNEY The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property t...
DARRYL PINCKNEY Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.
DARRYL PINCKNEY The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs lik...
DARRYL PINCKNEY The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced ...
DARRYL PINCKNEY I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.
DARRYL CHERNEY Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and ...
DARRYL ANKA It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.
DARRYL SOMERS Once upon a time, I was morbidly sensitive about the impertinence born of sociology. Taxi drivers wo...
DARRYL PINCKNEY Frederick Douglass had charged the air with rebellion and redemption, and these in turn had supporte...
DARRYL PINCKNEY Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and of...
DARRYL PINCKNEY The draining away of James Baldwin's magic was a drama much discussed in the years leading up to...
DARRYL PINCKNEY Things went very well for us today. It was a great meet and we had a lot of breakthroughs. To compet...
DARRYL ANDERSON The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and loo...
DARRYL ANDERSON I'm very pleased with our men's performances. It makes a big statement for the program with where we...
DARRYL ANDERSON For our men's relay team to come home as All-Americans shows the kind of success they're going to ha...
DARRYL ANDERSON I feel bad about it. I love animals. I have no tolerance for animals that people just discard animal...
DARRYL ADAMS His unselfishness goes a long way on this team. For example, he'll throw the next pass and he'll kno...
DARRYL ADAMS This is the most talented team I've had at Meade. We've had lapses in energy at times and we need to...
DARRYL ADAMS There were times when South River had four players on Johann and Mandel, and we were able to take ad...
DARRYL ADAMS It was a good game and we played with a sense of urgency. Chesapeake was a little bit undermanned, s...
DARRYL ADAMS This cat has been terrorizing people with cats. If you have a cat in your house this cat is trying t...
DARRYL ADAMS We had turnovers on five of six possessions against Old Mill. We've had trouble getting over that lo...
DARRYL ADAMS We took the No. 1 team in the county right to the edge. I think we're playing our best ball right no...
DARRYL ADAMS Johann is so unselfish that he sometimes hurts himself. The reality is that he shoots the ball very ...
DARRYL ADAMS I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team...
DARRYL ADAMS Identity is made up of lots of different things now. Different colors and patterns stand out at diff...
DARRYL PINCKNEY It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.
DARRYL SOMERS History is a sly boots, and for a generation of blacks that cannot identify with the frustrations of...
DARRYL PINCKNEY It's egregious, and we're outraged. Someone needs to pay for this.
DARRYL ROUSON I could ask Phil to go on conditioning (assignment) and he could say yes or no. This way, I don't ha...
DARRYL SUTTER It's the most dismal campaign that I've ever seen. It's been one set of missteps and blunders after ...
DARRYL PAULSON That's when he was back to the old Mister. He looked so good.
DARRYL PHIPPS We were trying not to underestimate them but we might have been looking ahead. Fort Myers can go as ...
DARRYL BURROWS We made several runs but they had an answer for everyone. I hope that no one underestimates them the...
DARRYL BURROWS These are not kinder, gentler times. One way or another, Northwest is going to drive its costs down,...
DARRYL JENKINS We only have a finite amount of money, so it will be extremely important to set those priorities.
DARRYL FRANKLIN It wasn't too many gimmicks, just hard football. They have a massive line, but we used our speed and...
DARRYL TAPP The girls were pretty ecstatic after their performance. It's the first time I can recall in my eight...
DARRYL SOUTHARD They have the pieces. The thing is to come together. Not one guy has to do it every night. They don'...
DARRYL STRAWBERRY That slave narratives existed at all implied a satisfactory conclusion to the journey - the attainme...
DARRYL PINCKNEY The coach can guide the young person as best he can. But the No. 1 thing is academics. The schools a...
DARRYL PAGE Beyond matters of the soul, the inspiration for most art is in nature. For me, aesthetic meteorites ...
DARRYL PITT If you decide to do something else instead of soil erosion, there may not be enough money left over ...
DARRYL FRANKLIN We tried to make them an offer after the flood of 2000, but it didn't work out.
DARRYL FRANKLIN It's great for our players. It's great for our ownership and it's great for our fans. They all deser...
DARRYL SUTTER I think quite honestly we've signed the No. 1 free agent in the market. I don't think there's anybod...
DARRYL SUTTER We're continuing to talk and it's been very positive and productive. I don't see it as a real issue ...
DARRYL SUTTER Wow. That's pretty neat. That is weird. Maybe there's some fate there.
DARRYL SUTTER A lot of it depends on guys who are banged up. We're starting on a road trip and all of those cities...
DARRYL SUTTER Our chances are greater, but we've still got to win the rest of our games. It was a big game, but it...
DARRYL MONROE Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers...
DARRYL PINCKNEY In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in gr...
DARRYL PINCKNEY We're playing on about half a tank and you need your goalie to play really well and our goalie didn'...
DARRYL SUTTER It's his first National Hockey League playoff game and you're not playing him 12-15 minutes, you're ...
DARRYL SUTTER We're pretty big Sally fans down here. It would've been easy to get dragged one way or another [in t...
DARRYL SMITH There are many benefits; permanent drainage, protection against future flooding and property damage,...
DARRYL COLOSI When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or...
DARRYL PINCKNEY I met with him last week in Baton Rouge to clarify the rules of appointment of a civil servant. I as...
DARRYL WAGLEY This will further strengthen the Ford brand by providing us with a greater opportunity to drive show...
DARRYL HAZEL Beating Navy, which was always considered one of the best teams in the country, was huge for Marylan...
DARRYL HILL My knee has been good. I'm doing well and I feel like I can be effective on the court. I think I'll ...
DARRYL HILL That may raise the obvious question of whether there's an insatiable appetite on the part of the cou...
DARRYL PAULSON There was some positive and some curious questions about it. Of course, our players are young and th...
DARRYL SMITHEY And God so loved the world that he gave it fresh air and clean water.
DARRYL PRICE And if the audience is moving in that direction, you have to move with them. I'm perfectly capable o...
DARRYL WORLEY Charlie is an asset to Adams County and I truly understand his position on retiring. I was a little ...
DARRYL GRENNELL Down the road we may call Charlie for budget consultation. He is so familiar with the budget we may ...
DARRYL GRENNELL We want to make this as painless as possible; we don't want to scare people off.
DARRYL REED Nothing was broken (in my face). And the scar, hopefully, won't be too bad.
DARRYL SYDOR It was great back then because hockey in L.A. was the big thing. We would have Ronald Reagan and Ger...
DARRYL SYDOR The last few games, we had been getting a lot of shots and chances, tonight that didn't happen, but ...
DARRYL SYDOR It gets you hyper, more than anything. And how good is that on the ice, especially when you need to ...
DARRYL SYDOR They seem to be getting too many odd-man rushes lately, and good defense is going to lead to good of...
DARRYL SYDOR I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.
DARRYL DAWKINS What's happening in skeleton that has generated a great deal of attention is the result of very seri...
DARRYL SEIBEL It created an opportunity for alternative candidates to emerge to exploit this dissatisfaction. None...
DARRYL PAULSON He (Bradley) needs to work on everything. He's still young. He's still raw. With everyone, we're try...
DARRYL DRAKE I attribute that to a lack of playoff experience. Playoff basketball is a little bit different. We h...
DARRYL ADAMS We're not playing well by a long shot. Tonight was very sloppy. I attribute that to only playing nin...
DARRYL BURROWS For much of the '70s, '80s and '90s, it was like the neglected stepchild told it was going to have t...
DARRYL PAULSON I've got my ring on, I'm going to relish it and take advantage of it. I'm not going nowhere. We're l...
DARRYL MCDONALD If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is unnecessary. If they disagree all the tim...
DARRYL ZANUCK There is a lot of psychological pressure that goes into having your medical care filmed and televise...
DARRYL FRANK This is a huge undertaking. This is a really important corridor.
DARRYL VANMETER The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of ch...
DARRYL PINCKNEY Slave narratives had their greatest influence on public opinion and on literature in the U.S. betwee...
DARRYL PINCKNEY June's our big travel season, so we may be postponing this to a worse conclusion and it might have b...
DARRYL JENKINS IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked "Mom and Dad.
DARRYL PINCKNEY He's got dynamite in his hip pocket. He's one who makes it count on every hit he gets. He's the most...
DARRYL PHIPPS It's a fine line. If you look at the series, the first game was an overtime game, the second game is...
DARRYL SUTTER The area has flooded a number of times in the past 35 years. Flooding provides a hazard to homeowner...
DARRYL COLOSI It has done some damage. She can't escape the bad news syndrome: She's always responding to bad news...
DARRYL PAULSON They have that reputation for (playing well) in big games. I fully expect them to be ready on Saturd...
DARRYL TAPP It does matter. Not just to the U.S. Olympic Committee. It matters to the American public. It matter...
DARRYL SEIBEL As perfect and as great as our system is, there are still flaws. And this is why it's important that...
DARRYL ROUSON No one is being singled out. But the accumulated effect of letting that go unchecked would hinder th...
DARRYL SEIBEL The business of government ought to be government, not business. I do think there's been too much of...
DARRYL PAULSON This system is not a good one. It's like a Swiss cheese -- we all know this. I don't think any of us...
DARRYL JENKINS If you watched Justin Gage and watched how he blocked (last Sunday), several of those big runs Thoma...
DARRYL DRAKE He has a chance to do some big things in this game. He's a great player. He just needs to work hard ...
DARRYL FEEMSTER Kipper is always one of the main reasons why we win hockey games.
DARRYL SUTTER Doc was better than Roger Clemens, ... Doc was more dominating. He was going to have a better career...
DARRYL STRAWBERRY If we had our preferences, of course we'd like all the stories to be good, strong positive stories. ...
DARRYL SEIBEL I was astonished. It was like I wasn't even on the field at all. It hurt my pride.
DARRYL TAPP The stakes are always higher because it always decides who wins an ACC title or a Big East title or ...
DARRYL TAPP This has created a vehicle for seniors to augment their retirement, get equity out of the home and u...
DARRYL HICKS It is not only a beautiful object but it transcends that which we know and are familiar. It is other...
DARRYL PITT It will be the responsibility of the property owner to move or demolish the clubhouse and otherwise ...
DARRYL FRANKLIN We think it's going to revitalize the whole area.
DARRYL LEECH This is the first time we've beaten Reno twice in one year since I've been here. I always wanted to ...
DARRYL FEEMSTER It is in process and we are awaiting final approval from the organizing committee and the internatio...
DARRYL SEIBEL No one has to have a great percentage. We need to keep focused on defense. We're not going to win wi...
DARRYL HILL I don't think this is a show about the priesthood. This is a show about guys who are discerning thei...
DARRYL SILVER If I wanted to sell my house, would I be able to get the full bang for my dollar, knowing that the f...
DARRYL REED Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when hi...
DARRYL PINCKNEY They made a calculated risk and they lost. That happens in a very difficult business like this.
DARRYL JENKINS I think we ran out of gas. It was like a road game for us.
DARRYL SUTTER Traffic volumes on I-75 are approaching values very seldom seen throughout the country.
DARRYL VANMETER Nobody deserves it more than Hines because nobody has worked as hard as him. I saw it [in high schoo...
DARRYL DRAKE Our concerns would lie in two areas. One, the lack of communication with an athlete who ultimately w...
DARRYL SEIBEL We haven't made a decision about whether we would pursue a 2016 bid for the United States at this po...
DARRYL SEIBEL He started the season off a little slow. But he's getting in better position as of late.
DARRYL BURROWS I felt a little hurt that we weren't ranked. But I hope they don't forget Dillard.
DARRYL BURROWS He has always been Coach Ingram to me. He was my high school coach. I've known him 30-plus years. He...
DARRYL BURROWS If we want to make a run in the playoffs, we have to be under control and willing to share the baske...
DARRYL ADAMS He came in at a good time because we were struggling and then he just shows up. He was a bigger kid ...
DARRYL ADAMS We were suffering much the same at this point last season and I'm sure some of these guys remember t...
DARRYL ADAMS It's an unwritten law that it's my lunch pail. I've issued the challenge. If someone outworks me, th...
DARRYL TAPP The only people we're going to accept are people who have played or are playing hockey. We won't tak...
DARRYL WOLSKI The national anthem is kind of a hard song to sing sometimes, and God gave me the strength to put it...
DARRYL REED This is a significant step. Our interest in the short term is in preserving opportunities for athlet...
DARRYL SEIBEL