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

• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Mom
  • Doing
  • Seattle

• 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

• I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Years
  • Dead
  • Just

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

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Playing
  • Standing
  • Box

• A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Learn

• 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

• In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • School
  • Happy
  • High

• 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

• I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn't even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Moon

• 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

• All of us who lived outside of New Orleans were horrified and heartbroken by what we saw when Katrina hit, the floods that followed the hurricane that happened.

  

  Jonathan Demme

• Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

  

  Mary Roach
  • People
  • Food
  • Missing

• You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Confidence

• Everything is generated through your own will power.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Power

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

  

  Wallace Stevens