Vachel Lindsay Quotes

I will not be a slave to my yesterday. I am creator, not a parrot.

Vachel Lindsay

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• I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Try

• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Business
  • Man

• Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Think
  • Existence
  • Jews

• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Job
  • Nature
  • Man

• Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Like
  • Kindness
  • Loving

• I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Why

• Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Late
  • Begin
  • Too Late

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Man
  • Pleasures
  • Depend

• I'm not interested in disposable music.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Music
  • Not Interested

• It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Social
  • Now

• Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Music
  • American

• My Ph.D. thesis problem was to determine if the DNA content of rat tissues increased if there was B12 in the diet. This problem was suggested by my adviser based on the observation that thymine could replace vitamin B12 in a lactobacillus.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Problem
  • Observation
  • Diet

• I have met with hundreds of young fashion designers, hundreds of fashion startups, hundreds of CEOs and business leaders. All I do is get to ask questions of professionals in the industry. I learn from every conversation. It is the best education I could have.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Business
  • Education
  • Fashion

• I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Health

• Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • World
  • Community
  • Now

• Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Writing
  • Together
  • End

• The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it's ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they've never met.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Travel

• At home, I warm milk, stir in two teaspoons of honey, and drink it in a teacup. It's so basic yet pure; I love it.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Home

• I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The whole time I was in front of the camera, I was thinking of the artist. A fellow creator who had poured her soul into something truly remarkable that might simply be ignored by the whole world. I was trying to get in her head. I was trying to figure out why she had created this thing and, in the same breath, calling out the world for its callous ignorance of beauty and form... I wanted people to wae up and spend a few moments looking at the exceptional amazement of human creation.

  

  Hank Green
  • Artist
  • Camera

• Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

  

  Nahum Tate
  • Men
  • Friendship
  • Greatness

• I will not be a slave to my yesterday. I am creator, not a parrot.

  

  Vachel Lindsay