Anne Carson Quotes
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.Anne Carson
Quotes to Explore
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
Orson Pratt -
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo -
Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
Edmund Phelps -
I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
Park Chan-wook -
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
Lake Bell
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater -
I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
Carlton Cuse -
You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
Jack Ramsay -
I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
Tali Lennox -
One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
Macaulay Culkin
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.
Yusuf Hamied -
I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
Vincent Cassel -
My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S. E. Hinton -
I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
Sam Donaldson -
I've known Roger Ailes for 15 years, and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
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When you do business with people you need money. When you do business with God you need faith. Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God.
Reinhard Bonnke -
The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
Alexander Berkman -
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
Anne Carson