Mary Oliver Quotes

The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.

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• Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Comedy
  • Year
  • Corporate

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Live
  • Stupid

• Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Growing
  • Internet
  • Partnerships

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
  • Practice

• 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

• Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Quality
  • Growth
  • Year

• I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Looking

• I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Men
  • Best
  • Decisions

• If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Turn

• What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

  

  Patricia Birch
  • Language
  • Body
  • Doing

• Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!'

  

  Kate Spade
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Market

• I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Said
  • Word
  • Congress

• You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Time
  • You

• My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Family
  • Enough
  • Successful

• No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • World
  • Money
  • Crime

• A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Stock

• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Art
  • Humanity

• It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Singing
  • Voice
  • Sound

• I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Radio is in my blood.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Blood
  • Radio

• The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.

  

  Mary Oliver