Recite Quotes

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.