Don Marquis Quotes

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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• It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Difficult
  • More
  • Name

• Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Job
  • Think
  • Stop

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Good
  • Discipline
  • Building

• The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • End
  • Satan
  • Pledge

• I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Day
  • Learning
  • One Day

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Think
  • Look
  • Down

• You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Career

• It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
  • Funny
  • Actor

• Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Different
  • Nature

• Whence can we the future learn?Life to mortals is obscure.

  

  Anacreon
  • Life
  • Future

• Daddy Fat Sacks B-I-G B-O-I, its that same motherfucker that put them knucles to your eye.'

  

  Outkast

• Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Question
  • Originality

• Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • People
  • Remember
  • Help

• All of this is for fun anyway.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Fun

• The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Mind
  • Education

• Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Song

• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

  

  Don Marquis