Charles Simic Quotes

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Charles Simic

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• I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Try
  • Add

• Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Sea
  • Conditions
  • Ice

• When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Courage

• For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • World
  • Think
  • Care

• One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • You
  • Years
  • Suicide

• It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Cold
  • Calm

• The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.

  

  Mary Beard
  • World

• Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Feeling

• I found myself at the beginning of 'Mad Men,' because I wasn't a sample size, spending an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dress that I would never wear again because someone would say - 'Christina Hendricks wore this dress twice.'

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Men
  • Money
  • Nice

• If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

  

  Booker T. Washington

• I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all.

  

  Jacob Whitesides
  • Time
  • Alone

• I have run with the bulls in Pamplona. I have raced with Mario Andretti in Indianapolis. I have climbed the Great Wall of China. I have jumped out of airplanes over Kansas.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Great
  • Wall

• I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Song

• Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Time
  • Literature
  • Lighthouse

• It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.

  

  Kathleen Quinlan
  • Universe

• I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes
  • Long

• I wanted to be Samson or Hercules from the age of six.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Age

• I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

  

  Bridgit Mendler
  • Character
  • Cool
  • Paradise

• Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Music
  • Country
  • Future

• I have always tried to sense the mood of the people, their needs, their attitude toward ways to solve problems, their priorities. That's mainly what I go by. And I think that's the most important thing in any person's work, in the work that the people of Russia entrusted in me.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Attitude

• Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mind

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• So many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.

  

  Daniel Keyes
  • Thinking
  • Learning

• Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

  

  Charles Simic
  • Lighthouse