Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

Marina Tsvetaeva

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• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Experience
  • Changes

• That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • See
  • Go

• I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Something
  • Without
  • Becoming

• Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Nobody
  • Court

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Grateful

• I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • See
  • Hear
  • Whatever

• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Hate
  • Same
  • Sound

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Sickness

• I'm really interested in playing my age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Really
  • Interested

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Great
  • Win
  • Three

• I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

  

  Philip Larkin
  • Poetry

• I am from Jaipur where 'Ramlila' is a common theatre act. Though I was a thin, lanky fellow, I was always offered the role of Hanuman.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Theatre

• I think that crying is a way women and men express frustration, anger, or passion. And we should not feel compelled to mute those emotions.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
  • Men
  • Women
  • Passion

• As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Experience
  • Record
  • Tale