Mary Oliver Quotes
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
Quotes to Explore
-
I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
-
Broadway is really my life.
-
I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
-
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
-
Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
-
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
-
When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
-
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
-
I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
-
I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
-
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
-
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
-
Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
-
I'm a real romantic.
-
I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.
-
From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
-
I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
-
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
-
We pride ourselves on being great songwriters.
-
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
-
In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. So don't be afraid to ask - the worst you can hear is 'no.'
-
Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.
-
Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
-
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
