Vachel Lindsay Quotes
The fact that you can write verse is in itself a certificate that you can write prose.Vachel Lindsay
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
Laura Dern -
Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.
Rachel Kushner -
I work out every day. My friends say that I became an actress by chance; I should have become a gym trainer. I am the most grumpiest and irritable person if I don't work out for two days. You cannot have a conversation with me.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
Karin Slaughter -
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln -
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.
Garrett Hedlund -
There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
D. B. Sweeney -
There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
Zainab Salbi -
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Compromise in colors is grey.
Edi Rama -
I think 'Eerie, Indiana' is a show for young people.
Omri Katz
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'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
Karl Marlantes -
It is only when social movements have receded into past history... that the Church with pride turns around to claim that it was she who abolished slavery, aroused the people to liberty, and emancipated woman.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
I'm an ass-kicking fat kid.
Jack Osbourne -
Isn't that sad! I'm so fragile. It's tragic laughs. Can you believe it? That's so sad.
Edie Sedgwick -
Something had changed-but it was not the street-The street was just the same-it was himself.
Conrad Aiken -
Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.
Marcel Marceau
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I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people.
John Abizaid -
I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.
Ja Rule -
When I'm home in New York, I box every day.
Gigi Hadid -
John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
Barack Obama -
Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?
Chang-Rae Lee -
The fact that you can write verse is in itself a certificate that you can write prose.
Vachel Lindsay