Wallace Stevens Quotes
I saw how the night came, Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks. I felt afraid. And I remembered the cry of the peacocks.Wallace Stevens
Quotes to Explore
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
Jackie Robinson -
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
Barbara Corcoran -
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Ted Turner -
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
Barbara Hepworth -
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
Iain Banks
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus -
I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
Ted Turner -
I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.
Washed Out -
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
Najib Razak -
Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
Oliver Sim The xx -
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
Laura Esquivel
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I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.
F. Gary Gray -
I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.
Taylor Swift -
As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.
Safra A. Catz -
The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
Zosia Mamet -
My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark spots in my life, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to get out of it, but they are who they are. They followed me. They yelled at me. They screamed at me. They loved me.
J. R. Smith -
The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.
Imelda Marcos
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I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'
Carrot Top -
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
Benicio Del Toro -
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
Mason Cooley -
As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
Christopher Walken -
I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.
Azealia Banks -
I saw how the night came, Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks. I felt afraid. And I remembered the cry of the peacocks.
Wallace Stevens