Wallace Stevens Quotes
My house has changed a little in the sun. The fragrance of the magnolias come close, False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.
Quotes to Explore
-
In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
-
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
-
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
-
You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
-
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
-
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
-
Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
-
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
-
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
-
I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
-
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
-
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
-
I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
-
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
-
I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
-
I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
-
My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
-
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
-
I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'
-
For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.
-
The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
-
Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
-
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
-
My house has changed a little in the sun. The fragrance of the magnolias come close, False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.
