Wallace Stevens Quotes
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
Ted Turner -
You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
Mal Peet -
There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
Wale -
I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
Olivia Cooke -
Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
Hansika Motwani
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Any reaction is better than none.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.
Florenz Ziegfeld -
How do you open up? I didn't know how to.
Yolandi Visser -
Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.
John Carroll Lynch -
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
A. J. P. Taylor -
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
Patrick Ness
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Andy Grove -
Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.
Allan Carl Newman -
Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
Israel ben Eliezer -
Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking.
Ian Gardner -
I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year.
Dean Wareham -
All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
C. V. Raman
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
Pablo Picasso -
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
William Shakespeare -
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Wallace Stevens