“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how ...” — Randall Jarrell Quote

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

Am I complaining about my deafness? No, I am not.

You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so you're not going to hear me complaining that I haven't had a day off in three weeks.

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.