Wallace Stevens Quotes
First one beam, then another, then A thousand are radiant in the sky. Each is both star and orb; and day Is the riches of their atmosphere.Wallace Stevens
Quotes to Explore
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
Otto Dix -
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
Adam Lambert -
Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
Gail Collins -
I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
Victoria Moran -
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
Famke Janssen
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
Carlos Castaneda -
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert -
Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
Sadie Frost -
I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
Victoria Pendleton -
Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Ilyasah Shabazz
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
Valerie Plame -
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
Patrick Stewart -
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
Oscar Isaac -
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Iris Chang -
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
Carey Mulligan
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
Jaan Tallinn -
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau -
A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.
Jennifer O'Neill -
I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
Lech Walesa -
First one beam, then another, then A thousand are radiant in the sky. Each is both star and orb; and day Is the riches of their atmosphere.
Wallace Stevens