Charles Olson Quotes

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Charles Olson

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• Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Beauty
  • Personal
  • Reference

• 'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Sports
  • Playing
  • Speed

• I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friend
  • Radio
  • Plays

• My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Accomplish

• I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Model

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Lost

• The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Sound
  • New York
  • London

• What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Courage
  • Ignorance
  • Determination

• I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Morning

• I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Kid

• Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Country
  • Truth

• Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Together
  • Strong

• I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Because
  • Shy
  • Twice

• I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Together

• I don't wish to go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Bad
  • Wish

• I'm ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as an artist because you're not only working on a project, but you get to work with cameras, and you get the audience there.

  

  Andrea Anders
  • World
  • Work
  • Experience

• My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Son

• As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Age

• I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.

  

  Jilly Cooper
  • Nature

• I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Life
  • Long
  • Motorcycle

• Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Food

• I always wanted the flowiness that hip-hop artists had. I always admired how they rapped so fast, but I never wanted to rap; I wanted to sing the rap.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Rap

• The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

  

  Charles Olson