I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room
I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain limit and at that point you enter into a little bit of mystery. That for me is the perfect poem: to begin in clarity and to end in mystery.
I don't think you should let your age stop anything you want to do. Don't put an age limit on your dreams.
I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.
Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and into a hole which is of sufficient size to accomodate it by a good margin. Simple that is, provided there is no limit upon the time or the number of strokes required.
'With a telescope, some munchies, and a warm blanket, watch for Halley's comet. ' Yeah. I like that. There's no time limit. Just sit there and grow old together.
It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated by social media - Twitter's 140-character limit, for instance - start to influence what we're used to.
But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.
The only limit is the one you set yourself.
I love doing action movies, I love pushing myself to the limit.
Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?
Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!
There's sometimes a little bit of a trap to limit yourself for an audience.
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.
Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. . . . We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.
So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
I have a hold limit that I've set for myself. I hold until I start to imagine myself killing the person on the other end. Then I hang up and regroup.