Wallace Stevens Quotes

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Wallace Stevens

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• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Family
  • Exercise
  • Arrogance

• 'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Father
  • Morning

• When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Why
  • Change
  • Focus

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Twilight

• Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Playing
  • Standing
  • Box

• If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.

  

  Victor Webster
  • You
  • Bored
  • Challenged

• I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Time
  • Man
  • Intelligence

• Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Causes
  • Whatever
  • Effective

• Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Politics
  • Creation
  • Cynical

• Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Possession
  • Understands

• Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Done
  • Serious

• That ev'n my buried Ashes such a snare Of Vintage shall fling up into the Air As not a True-believer passing by But shall be overtaken unaware.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • True
  • Air

• One of the reasons religions are widely accepted is spiritual laziness and its resulting fear.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Fear
  • Spiritual

• Internet forums are kind of fun and stuff, but what's really weird is how they fucking give such a shit about how I'm spelling. It's like, what, I worked to be a clerical worker? I didn't take typing class, assholes.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Fun
  • Weird

• Since the 1970s, I've been a big fan of attending conferences as a great way to learn, network, socialize and enjoy a new environment. It's always refreshing to get out and see a whole new world.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • World
  • Great
  • Environment

• I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • She
  • Job
  • Beautiful

• I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

  

  Albert Ellis

• I've learned from experience you just never know what happens in life.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Life
  • Experience

• It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

  

  Doug Liman
  • People
  • Movie

• Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.

  

  Edward George, Baron George
  • Pain
  • Sadness
  • Vanish

• Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Fighting
  • Gay

• Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Game
  • Like
  • Feelings

• I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

  

  Wallace Stevens