The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
Marilyn Hacker

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.
Simon Travaglia

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
Sellapan Ramanathan

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
Omar Sharif

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
Talcott Parsons

The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
Malcolm Wallop

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
Chinua Achebe

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
Robert Creeley

There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water.
Ernest Thompson Seton

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.
Emanuel Cleaver

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.
Robert Nozick

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
Barry McGuire

These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.
Frank Iero

This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.
Ron Ziegler

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Harold Pinter

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.
Brian Perkins

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.
Neil Peart

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
Mark Mothersbaugh

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James