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.

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• In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • World
  • Value

• A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Freedom

• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Open

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • You
  • Questions
  • Ask

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• 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.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Country
  • Help
  • Problem

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• 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.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Easy

• 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.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Balance

• I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Conflict
  • Unhappy

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Playing
  • Because
  • Tennessee

• 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.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Inspired
  • Voice

• My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Series

• He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Death
  • Sin
  • Glory

• Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

  

  Hakuin Ekaku
  • Meditation

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Family
  • House
  • Parents

• It's a presidential election year 2016, certainly everyone is talking about it, but if the history of the show tells us anything, the Big Brother cast does not usually discuss political issues like that in the house.

  

  Allison Grodner
  • House
  • Election
  • Discuss

• I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kind
  • Perseverance
  • Sticks

• 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.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • House
  • Sun