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 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 They played hard. They always play hard. They don't quit and they're a pleasure to coach.
CHRIS 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 I figured it's better to stop now than after I cut my hand off.
DARRYL FENTON I couldn't have made enough.
DARRYL 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 One of the most popular games to watch on eSports is 'League of Legends,' a game that blends...
ROB MANUEL At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive p...
ROB PORTMAN I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of p...
ROB RIGGLE Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.
ROB ZOMBIE I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to pl...
ROB GRONKOWSKI Before I go to bed, I've got to hit my situps and pushups. While I'm watching a TV show, I d...
ROB GRONKOWSKI Just follow the rules. Always have a designated driver. Don't be doing anything to make someone ...
ROB GRONKOWSKI I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back...
ROB GRONKOWSKI Stay hyped! Get chicks!
ROB GRONKOWSKI My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.
ROB GRONKOWSKI You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defe...
ROB GRONKOWSKI Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physi...
ROB GRONKOWSKI At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess aroun...
ROB GRONKOWSKI I was always blessed growing up with opportunities and access to facilities, equipment, and playing ...
ROB GRONKOWSKI I was running super slow. Chris thought I was done. Then one day at the end of February, I woke up a...
ROB GRONKOWSKI Just put football first, or your job first. Give everything you've got all week, work hard, work...
ROB GRONKOWSKI You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make s...
ROB GRONKOWSKI We go out to practice every single day and we have fun out there, but at the same time, we're ge...
ROB GRONKOWSKI My softer side? I mean, I like to snuggle.
ROB GRONKOWSKI Keep doing what you have to do to help the team out.
ROB GRONKOWSKI Everyone always helped me out growing up, and everyone now supports me Sunday. So whenever there'...
ROB GRONKOWSKI The importance of lifting weights is it kind of makes me who I am.
ROB GRONKOWSKI I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.
ROB GRONKOWSKI Me not working hard? Yeah, right - picture that with a Kodak.
ROB GRONKOWSKI I just go with the flow, day by day, week by week.
ROB GRONKOWSKI To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live ...
ROB GRONKOWSKI You want to be the best at work in order to go out and celebrate.
ROB GRONKOWSKI I saw 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.' I liked it. I saw 'The Fault in Our Stars,' and I ...
ROB REINER I'm very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and f...
ROB MARSHALL The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-...
ROB SHEFFIELD The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It...
ROB ZOMBIE Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance...
ROB PORTMAN I just love the Corps. I love the brotherhood, the camaraderie. I thank anyone in uniform who serves...
ROB RIGGLE The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candid...
ROB MCKENNA The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, w...
ROB BELL The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.
ROB BISHOP I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.
ROB KARDASHIAN My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a pupp...
ROB LOWE As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneu...
ROB DYRDEK The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not abou...
ROB MANUEL Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can re...
ROB ZOMBIE I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man push...
ROB LOWE One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different...
ROB SHEFFIELD Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched ...
ROB SHEFFIELD To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President B...
ROB WOODALL When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you s...
ROB THURMAN Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square h...
ROB SILTANEN The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
ROB SILTANEN Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist...
ROB BELL The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with Go...
ROB BELL Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
ROB LIANO What we do comes out of who we believe we are.
ROB BELL I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines...
KENDAL ROB Nothing is born into this world without labor.
ROB LIANO Be happy or die.
ROB COHEN If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of somethi...
ROB STAMPFLI Making copies.
ROB SCHNEIDER What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
ROB THOMAS And the people we’ve become, well, they’ve never been the people who we are.
ROB THOMAS In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds...
ROB LOWE To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don...
ROB REINER Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Le...
ROB ZOMBIE Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing ...
ROB BELL I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign...
ROB DELANEY I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performe...
ROB MCCLURE It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans...
ROB SHEFFIELD I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing...
ROB LOWE I'm not representing any organization. I represent the people of Ohio, and a lot of people in Oh...
ROB PORTMAN Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently look...
ROB MARIANO 'Wild Grinders' becoming an animated series, and airing on Nicktoons is another one of my bo...
ROB DYRDEK Added to the rooster of courses, 'Tiger Woods 10' adds in seven new courses from the pristin...
ROB MANUEL Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action...
ROB MARSHALL I grew up in the D.C. area, and I used to wear a Redskins jersey just walking around. I just had kin...
ROB HUEBEL Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible a...
ROB WITTMAN The Iron Dome system is a proven way for Israel to defend its citizens from hostile threats and will...
ROB PORTMAN After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to ...
ROB LOWE A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach...
ROB GRONKOWSKI I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.
ROB DYRDEK I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.
ROB DELANEY We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get ...
ROB MACHADO Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe ...
ROB SHEFFIELD Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game...
ROB MANUEL I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need.
ROB GRONKOWSKI I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you...
ROB MCELHENNEY You'd be surprised how cold you get in the water, especially surfing a place like Pipeline. If t...
ROB MACHADO I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later...
ROB ZOMBIE My hopes and aspirations haven't changed since I started in this business. They've been to b...
ROB LOWE My initial introduction to him was - this is a funny story... My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing...
ROB MCCLURE Maggie and I got married and then had to wait three years before we got to take our honeymoon becaus...
ROB MCCLURE One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take some...
ROB LOWE I'm not Charlie Chaplin and will never, ever claim to be. But when I become the 'Tramp,'...
ROB MCCLURE But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making...
ROB SHEFFIELD I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in...
ROB LOWE Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath ...
ROB SHEFFIELD George Clooney is exactly what you would expect. He's annoyingly good looking, insanely funny, a...
ROB HUEBEL I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty...
ROB PORTMAN When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is wh...
ROB PORTMAN Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankl...
ROB PORTMAN It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboardin...
ROB MCELHENNEY Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.
ROB LOWE I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who driv...
ROB LOWE Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirt...
ROB LOWE I've been on TV a long time, and I've never had a catch phrase.
ROB LOWE Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fi...
ROB REINER Just take yourself back to September 2001. As that month went on, and as that autumn unrolled, every...
ROB RIGGLE Can I play a southern character? You betcha. Can I do the voice of Tourist Dad and Carnival Barker? ...
ROB HUEBEL It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemp...
ROB SHEFFIELD I lived in New York for 10 years; I followed the Rangers. Now I live in L.A. I want to adopt a team....
ROB RIGGLE Look, here's the deal: The Chiefs' fate and the Royals' fate, that's my fate.
ROB RIGGLE I'm a Kansas City kid, so I love my Royals and Chiefs. I went to the University of Kansas, so I ...
ROB RIGGLE Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
ROB LOWE My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn't live...
ROB LOWE At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentaw...
ROB MACHADO Everyone has baggage, maybe we should help each other carry it.
ROB LIANO The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.
ROB MONTGOMERY Justin Bieber, I love to death. He's such a cool, ridiculous, much crazier kid in real life - mo...
ROB DYRDEK My mom has this thing where if I'm doing anything doing dirty or crazy, she sniffs it out and ye...
ROB HUEBEL I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
ROB LOWE One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; i...
ROB MACHADO My roles in comedies from 'Austin Powers' to 'Tommy Boy' to 'Wayne's World,&...
ROB LOWE If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are me...
ROB MORROW 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - '...
ROB SHEFFIELD As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay wel...
ROB WITTMAN I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it of...
ROB MCCLURE You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from ...
ROB SHEFFIELD I'm on the Armed Services Committee, which gives me the opportunity to get involved on some of t...
ROB PORTMAN Anything is possible if you're willing to work for it.
ROB DYRDEK If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.
ROB KARDASHIAN Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living roo...
ROB MANUEL The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it,...
ROB BELL That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metap...
ROB SHEFFIELD 'Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth ...
ROB MANUEL