Wallace Stevens Quotes

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Wallace Stevens

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• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  

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• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  

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• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

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• Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

  

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• The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.

  

  Dana Perino
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• Life is too short to blend in.

  

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• There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.

  

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• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

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• You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

  

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  • Pretty
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• I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

  

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• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  

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• I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.

  

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  • Experience
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• Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
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• NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

  

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• When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

  

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• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

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• He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

  

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• If Twitter genuinely wants users to buy things at scale, they have to give us a chance to consider the offers and make a decision in a matter of minutes/hours/days, not just seconds.

  

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• He falls in the pit he digs for others.

  

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• Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

  

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  • Flower
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• Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Water