Wallace Stevens Quotes

They married well because the marriage-place Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell. They were love’s characters come face to face.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Christian

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Bad
  • About

• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Men
  • Action

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Year
  • Started
  • Shell

• Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Help
  • Always
  • Yourself

• My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Going

• Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Before

• What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • World
  • Mind
  • America

• The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Determination

• I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Scary

• I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • History
  • Think
  • Deep

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• We were like a moth right next to the flame. It's like, do any more and you go down. We were so tired. One final lap, and then have a rest.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Rest
  • Tired

• I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Read
  • Public
  • Twitter

• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Words
  • Marriage

• I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

  

  Andrew Wyeth
  • True
  • Nature
  • Study

• They married well because the marriage-place Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell. They were love’s characters come face to face.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Marriage
  • Heaven