Mark Helprin Quotes

The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.

Mark Helprin

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• Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Flowers
  • Hundred
  • Bloom

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• You don't have to get it right the first time.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Time
  • You
  • First

• I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Musician
  • Appreciate

• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Free

• As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Life
  • Country
  • Free

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Hungry

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Life
  • Own
  • Privacy

• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Impossible

• Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Done
  • Know
  • Government

• I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up
  • Why
  • Balance

• It's pretty easy for me because I have a wonderful wife. We put God first and it takes a lot of hard work.

  

  Bo Bice
  • Work
  • God
  • Pretty

• Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Day

• The more that I travel, the more people that I meet, the more experiences that are really a testament to the kind of person that I am, and you hear about my experiences and my growth through my music. I think that that is really relatable.

  

  Zella Day
  • People
  • Music
  • Growth

• People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Refuse
  • Moderation

• The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Freedom