Charles Olson Quotes
When I saw him, he was at the door, but it did not matter, he was already sliding along the wall of the night, losing himself in some crack of the ruins. That it should have been he who said, 'The kingfishers! who cares for their feathers now?' His last words had been, 'The pool is slime.'Charles Olson
Quotes to Explore
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
Adam D'Angelo -
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert -
You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.
Rachel Bloom -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
Candace Bushnell -
I want to make a name for myself.
Fatima Siad
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
Hans Haacke -
I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
Octavia Spencer -
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
Aaron Sorkin -
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Walter Pater -
I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
R. Kelly
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
E. W. Howe -
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
Sam Shepard -
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.
Laura Osnes -
I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
Parker Posey
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There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.
J. I. Packer -
Here's Your Sign Reloaded (2003)
Bill Engvall -
I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
Callan McAuliffe -
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
Emil Cioran -
What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
Elena Kagan -
When I saw him, he was at the door, but it did not matter, he was already sliding along the wall of the night, losing himself in some crack of the ruins. That it should have been he who said, 'The kingfishers! who cares for their feathers now?' His last words had been, 'The pool is slime.'
Charles Olson