Quotes About Unity

Girls Aloud is not just us five, there's like us five plus a ridiculous team of 50 who travel with us, it's amazing.

Just because Pluto orbits with many other dwarf planets doesn't change what it is, just as whether an object is a mountain or not doesn't depend on whether it's in a group or in isolation.

We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

To be able to stand on the podium and see one Canadian flag raised is one thing, but to see two, it feels like you're not alone.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

Poets are not meant to be in competition.

It's very important to say that French doesn't belong to France and to French people. Now you have very wonderful poets and writers in French who are not French or Algerian - who are from Senegal, from Haiti, from Canada, a lot of parts of the world.

Federalism should be a meeting point of all groups.

At the point we finished 'Abbey Road,' the game was up. We all accepted that.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

A point guard can carry a team - if he has all the right stuff.

It's hard to play basketball without a point guard - it's an important position.

Once you see the leader of the team, the point guard of the team who has the ball pretty much the whole time in the game directing everybody, I think it just rubs off on everybody.