Wallace Stevens Quotes
Things as they are have been destroyed. Have I? Am I a man that is dead At a table on which the food is cold? Is my thought a memory, not alive? Is the spot on the floor, there, wine or blood And whichever it may be, is it mine?
Wallace Stevens
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
Zig Ziglar
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
Ed Markey
There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
Barbara Palvin
You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
Orson F. Whitney
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
Garrison Keillor
When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
Abigail Disney
If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
Naoto Kan
Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
Sally Field
My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.
Adam Goldberg
A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
J. Michael Straczynski
Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
Ralph Kiner
Every day, I want to learn something new; I want to move up.
Dinesh Paliwal
This federal welfare system is large, fragmented, and growing in cost. This system may have started out with good intentions, but it has become a confusing maze of programs that are overlapping, duplicative, poorly coordinated and difficult to administer.
Charles Boustany
There is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.
Mary Roach
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Things as they are have been destroyed. Have I? Am I a man that is dead At a table on which the food is cold? Is my thought a memory, not alive? Is the spot on the floor, there, wine or blood And whichever it may be, is it mine?
Wallace Stevens
