Mark Strand Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
-
I would love to do some theater.
-
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
-
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
-
You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
-
My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
-
There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.
-
I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
-
I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
-
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
-
When you're rich you don't write checks.
-
I started out doing musicals.
-
So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
-
Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
-
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
-
I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
-
Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.
-
In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.
-
I'm not a negative person.
-
I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.
-
To laugh is to live profoundly.
-
I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there is no corruption in them, while in the best of men there can always be found some guilt or wickedness which seems to have earned him death.
-
Grace Slick was a total trip to work with. Lots of jokes and opinions. A strident individual and super talented!
-
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
