Wallace Stevens Quotes

In being more than an exception, part,Though an heroic part, of the commonal. The major abstraction is the commonal, The inanimate, difficult visage.

Wallace Stevens

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• People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Quirky

• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  

  Larry Elder
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Win
  • Celebrate
  • Ice

• Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Religious

• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur
  • Finding

• I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Think
  • Need

• If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Stage
  • Going

• Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Opportunity
  • Kind
  • Childhood

• Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • New
  • Egg

• I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Believe
  • House

• I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • Work
  • Love
  • Michael

• Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Time
  • World
  • Day

• I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Love
  • Theatre

• If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Science
  • Past
  • Stop

• Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • God
  • War
  • Selfish

• He is not bound so tightly by tradition that he will refuse a good idea simply for it being new, and not so wild that he would take a bad idea simply because it is new.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Good
  • Bad

• People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the courage of exploring the world of cinema, which has so much to offer.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • People
  • World
  • Star

• Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

  

  John Milton
  • Incapable
  • Stain
  • Ethereal

• The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

  

  Raul Castro
  • World
  • Country
  • Forever

• They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Night
  • Desert
  • Spy

• I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Sometimes

• In being more than an exception, part,Though an heroic part, of the commonal. The major abstraction is the commonal, The inanimate, difficult visage.

  

  Wallace Stevens