Wallace Stevens Quotes

Nothing had happened because nothing had changed. Yet the General was rubbish in the end.

Wallace Stevens

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• Failure is success if we learn from it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Learn

• In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Teenager
  • Ways
  • Normal

• I don't get star-struck at all.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Star
  • Get

• I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • History
  • Think
  • Change

• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Work
  • Television

• Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Business
  • Politics

• Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Done
  • Think
  • You

• Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Society
  • Education

• Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Music
  • Player

• Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Think
  • Always
  • Start

• You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Want
  • You
  • Company

• If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Money
  • Brother

• Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • School
  • High
  • End

• 'I've been seeing the waves and the white beach of Grand Isle; the quiet, grassy street of the Chênière Caminada; the old sunny fort at Grand Terre. I've been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul.'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.

  

  Alexandre Aja
  • Up
  • Spring

• There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Work
  • Business
  • Canada

• What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug

• I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

  

  Richard Rodgers
  • Believe
  • Wonderful
  • Expresses

• I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.

  

  Lex Luger
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Past

• Nothing had happened because nothing had changed. Yet the General was rubbish in the end.

  

  Wallace Stevens