Vachel Lindsay Quotes

I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth.

Vachel Lindsay

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• I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Right

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Know

• No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Equal
  • Close

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Rest
  • Started
  • Eleven

• I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Always
  • Minutes

• One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Deep

• I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • School
  • High
  • Acting

• When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Culture

• I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Star
  • Sweet

• If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Free
  • You
  • Now

• People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Family
  • Faith
  • Law

• Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

  

  Charlotte Bronte

• Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Learning
  • Lies

• Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Heroism

• The capacity to distinguish between empirical knowledge and value-judgments, and the fulfillment of the scientific duty to see the factual truth as well as the practical duty to stand up for our own ideals constitute the program to which we wish to adhere with ever increasing firmness.

  

  Max Weber
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Death
  • Faith