Philip Levine Quotes
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.Philip Levine
Quotes to Explore
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton -
I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
Rachel McAdams -
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry -
You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
Hal Sparks -
What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid -
I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
Harold Pinter
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna -
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
Gary Wolf -
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler -
When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
Zach Anner -
Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
Kangana Ranaut -
Gags die, humor doesn't.
Jack Benny
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
A. James Clark -
So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
Patrick J. Adams -
We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
Hans Jonas -
You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
Barbara Bush -
If the constitution goes, I go.
Kamisese Mara -
When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
Adam Hasner
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
Malcolm X -
I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work.
Ashton Kutcher -
Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.
Catherine Fisher -
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
Peter Greenaway -
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
Philip Levine