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 -
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 -
But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
Dan Simmons
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From a very young age, I would fall off the bed and wake up on the floor because of dreams. I have a memory from the age of four in which I felt God.
Ayelet Zurer -
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.
Joseph Butler -
'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.
Ziggy Marley -
Imagine the week ahead unfolding in an ever-increasing flow of miracles. Allow the image to sink into your heart. Receive it with a big yes!
Marianne Williamson -
I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.
Rita Mae Brown -
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