Wallace Stevens Quotes

Apotheosis is not The origin of the major man. He comes,p>Compact in invincible foils, from reason, Lighted at midnight by the studious eye, Swaddled in revery, the object ofThe hum of thoughts evaded in the mind...

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Government

• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Succeed
  • Russian

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Great
  • Society
  • Purpose

• To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Important
  • Me
  • Hair

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
  • Cinema

• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Important
  • Live
  • May

• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Playing

• We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Grow
  • Cost

• Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Government
  • Step

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Revolution
  • Dictatorship

• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • She
  • Guy

• There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Friends
  • Forever
  • Texas

• Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• It's all about allowing your body to do what it’s brilliantly able to do and stopping your mind getting in the way.

  

  Ed Hawkins
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Body

• Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Know
  • Best
  • Spirit

• Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.

  

  Genesis Rodriguez
  • Fool

• Apotheosis is not The origin of the major man. He comes,p>Compact in invincible foils, from reason, Lighted at midnight by the studious eye, Swaddled in revery, the object ofThe hum of thoughts evaded in the mind...

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Thoughts