Wallace Stevens Quotes

A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.

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• A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Success
  • Influence

• Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Eye
  • Stars

• I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Way
  • Never
  • Say

• If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Bad
  • You
  • Place

• There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Good
  • Learning

• I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

  

  J. Lee Thompson
  • Camera
  • Filmmaking
  • Digital

• Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Loss

• Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Work
  • Like
  • Leap

• As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Life
  • Age
  • Early

• I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Country
  • Why
  • Think

• That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Different
  • Character
  • Moral

• The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Great
  • Science
  • Action

• The casual is not Enough. The freshness of transformation isThe freshness of a world. It is our own, It is ourselves, the freshness of ourselves, And that necessity and that presentationAre rubbings of a glass in which we peer.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Transformation

• There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • She
  • Hope
  • Night

• Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim. That's why the world is in the shape that it's in.

  

  Louis Farrakhan
  • World
  • Why

• The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Practice
  • Mirror

• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Die

• Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • People
  • Life
  • Sad

• We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Time
  • May
  • Game

• I don't think I'm the one that invented glamour at all.

  

  Helmut Lang
  • Think
  • Glamour
  • Invented

• Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • High
  • Everyday

• If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Way
  • Start
  • Keep

• A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.

  

  Wallace Stevens