"We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?"
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"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them."
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"I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light."
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"For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means."
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"Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something."
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"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words."
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"I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power."
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"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."
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"The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front."
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"My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power."
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"Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords."
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"The attack on Obama Care was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-Obama Care forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future."
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"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."
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"I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about."
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"Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip."
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"I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script."
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"I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it."
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"New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself."
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"I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile."
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"If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day."
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