Don Marquis Quotes

there are more thingstwixt the vermiform appendixand nirvana than are dreamt ofin thy philosophy horatio

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• What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Subversive

• I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Model
  • First
  • Texas

• A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Time
  • Fight
  • Arts

• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Philosophical
  • Then

• I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Strong
  • Adapt
  • Surroundings

• I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Career
  • Government
  • Politics

• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Age
  • Youth

• The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Funny
  • Woman
  • Grateful

• When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Often

• Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a level that the regime determines it is simply too great to bear, and they are forced to weigh the decision to carry on their nuclear development and their illicit quest for nuclear weapons against the ever-growing pressure from their own people.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Long
  • Night

• I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Lost

• Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Progress

• Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Help
  • Funny

• If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

  

  Alfred Brendel

• When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Country
  • City

• If you're able to pay your bills, you pay your bills. It's as simple as that.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Simple

• The man is a complete wackadoo, but so is every great actor who ever lived. You gotta separate the artist from his/her art, or you won't be able to enjoy anything.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Great
  • Art

• 'Didn’t you ever see a cat before?''Of course I did,' said the boy. 'Hundreds of them. But just because you’ve seen something, it doesn’t mean you stop looking. There’s always something you didn’t see before.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Stop
  • Boy
  • Cat

• You won't see me doing 'Transformers 5.'

  

  Alison Owen

• In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov
  • Police

• I’m discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do, so the worker wakes up at 8AM, but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Creator
  • Discovering
  • Worker

• there are more thingstwixt the vermiform appendixand nirvana than are dreamt ofin thy philosophy horatio

  

  Don Marquis