Mark Strand Quotes

A poem releases itself, it does it with cadence.

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• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Up
  • Political
  • Courage

• I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Work
  • Music
  • Love

• I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Me
  • Books
  • Fact

• Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Children
  • Want
  • Model

• Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Action
  • Genius

• Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Life
  • Challenges

• I'd never discuss anything confidential.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Never
  • Anything
  • Discuss

• There's always chatter about a 'Chuck' movie. So nobody's opposed to it. It's just a matter of getting everything lined up.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Always

• Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and that had such a huge effect on me as a child, watching those films back in the '70s. There was so much of that character that was, for me, Superman.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Character
  • Child
  • Superman

• I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Family
  • Business
  • Father

• As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Christian

• The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • May
  • Decision
  • Leaving

• The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Real
  • Differences
  • Land

• Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Will
  • Laws

• The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Support
  • College

• I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Dream

• When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them. They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem. If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn, They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Green

• Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Together
  • Society
  • Interesting

• I have three daughters who grew up while I was working on the special editions and the prequels. They got to be big 'Star Wars' fans. And, you know, I would see them identifying with a lot of the male characters, and I just thought, 'Star Wars' could use more good strong female leads.'

  

  John Knoll
  • Up
  • Good
  • Strong

• If I ever make a lot of money in the NBA, I'm going to have this massive tank, and it's going to have an alligator in it.

  

  Ben Simmons
  • Money

• It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.

  

  Hector Elizondo
  • Time
  • Marriage
  • Strings

• This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Done
  • Today

• A poem releases itself, it does it with cadence.

  

  Mark Strand