Mary Oliver Quotes
Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green earth there was a hint of paradise, and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.Mary Oliver
Quotes to Explore
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
Olivia Thirlby -
I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
Rafael Nadal -
Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
Vanessa Paradis -
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
Fiona Apple -
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
Ralph Merkle -
I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
R. L. Stine
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet -
When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
Caitlin Moran -
Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
Sachin Tendulkar -
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin -
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken -
If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
Octavio Paz
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
Gabrielle Reece -
Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I come from a pretty strange family.
Illeana Douglas -
I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
Rachel Griffiths -
Reinforcement is being right.
B. F. Skinner -
I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
B. Wayne Hughes
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Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school.
Yehudi Menuhin -
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Abraham Maslow -
I don't have the habit of wearing ornaments.
Anushka Shetty -
I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -
Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green earth there was a hint of paradise, and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.
Mary Oliver