Mary Oliver Quotes

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

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• Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Life
  • Finish
  • Winner

• That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Boy

• Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • World
  • Reality

• If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • You
  • Know
  • Software

• We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Actor
  • Entertainment
  • Joke

• If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • You
  • Problem

• My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Work
  • Me
  • Dialogue

• When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • Faith
  • Peace
  • Friend

• If you desire ease, forsake learning.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • You
  • Desire
  • Learning

• My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Remember
  • Man
  • Poverty

• Some of the most common pitfalls I see occur when authors don't check their privilege. Billions are living in a personal apocalypse right this second, so a little research and empathy can go a long way toward developing a convincing world.

  

  Rae Carson
  • World
  • Long
  • Research

• I think I'm a story-based artiste. So I would opt for the performance-oriented role. I usually go by intuition while choosing a script. Also, I do not analyse my performance, nor do I bother about how my film has been performing at the box office. I personally love challenges and am game for taking up things which I haven't attempted before.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Game
  • Challenges
  • Role

• As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!

  

  Kara Walker
  • Child
  • Sad
  • Win

• It broke out with matchless fury. The rapid vehement fire. Him we praise above the earth, Fire, the fiery meteor of the dawn. Above the high gale, Higher than every cloud. Great his animal.

  

  Taliesin
  • Great
  • High
  • Earth

• Even before I was me, I was God in God; And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God

• 'Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba...May His name be celebrated and sanctified...' whispered my father.For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • Why
  • May

• I don't miss the limelight, not at all. I'm just more comfortable out of it. I don't miss 'Monday Night Football.' I just don't miss it. I'm lucky. When I stopped playing, I didn't miss it. I feel blessed that it's not been a problem. I have great memories. I feel really lucky.

  

  Don Meredith
  • Great
  • Night
  • Football

• I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

  

  Alan Ruck
  • Up
  • Live
  • Comedy

• Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

  

  Plato
  • Troubling
  • Impudence
  • Accompained

• Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Lost
  • Brave
  • Letters

• Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Vacation

• Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • History
  • Political

• If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Firsts
  • Ifs
  • Views

• Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

  

  Mary Oliver