Wallace Stevens Quotes
To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.Wallace Stevens
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson -
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
Dan Ariely -
I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
Sam Kinison -
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky -
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel -
But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
Parminder Nagra -
I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
Lajos Kossuth -
I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
Yuvraj Singh -
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
Adam McKay -
I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
H. R. McMaster -
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
Baz Luhrmann -
We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
Cab Calloway -
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
Iain Glen -
Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
Rachel Sklar -
I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
Najib Mikati
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
Jackie Chan -
History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.
Jim Webb -
I'm so good at Atletico. Honestly, I don't see myself leaving.
Antoine Griezmann -
It is not a crime nor an impeachable offense to engage in inappropriate personal conduct; nor is it a crime to obstruct or conceal an embarrassing relationship.
Asa Hutchinson -
As a child, I copied Tenniel's illustrations from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye.
Chris Riddell -
To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.
Wallace Stevens