Wallace Stevens Quotes

So that's life, then: things are they are? It picks its way on the blue guitar. A million people on one string? And all their manner in the thing, And all their manner, right and wrong, And all their manner, weak and strong? And that's life, then: things as they are, This buzzing of the blue guitar.

Wallace Stevens

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• To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Clothes
  • Got
  • Collector

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Age
  • Dad

• In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Society
  • Celebrity
  • Everyone

• There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Right
  • Wait

• To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Understanding
  • End

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Inspiration

• When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Roses

• My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Cool

• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Same
  • Thanks
  • Wolf

• That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Moments
  • Miracle
  • Youth

• Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Help
  • Reality

• Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Job
  • Want
  • Know

• You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

  

  Jimmie Johnson
  • Live

• While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Secret

• Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

  

  George Eliot
  • Moments
  • Waiting
  • Habit

• And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on.

  

  Glenn Tipton Judas Priest
  • Fans
  • Enthusiasm
  • Genuine

• When people are like, ''UnREAL' is so dark,' I'm like, 'Hahahahahahahahahaha! Wait 'til you get to 'Sharp Objects.''

  

  Marti Noxon
  • People
  • Dark

• So that's life, then: things are they are? It picks its way on the blue guitar. A million people on one string? And all their manner in the thing, And all their manner, right and wrong, And all their manner, weak and strong? And that's life, then: things as they are, This buzzing of the blue guitar.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Life
  • Strong