Wallace Stevens Quotes

Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Memories
  • Show
  • Everyone

• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• NASA should start thinking about this planet.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Thinking
  • Start
  • NASA

• Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Grow
  • U.S.
  • Must

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

  

  J. Cole
  • Taken
  • Risk
  • Hot

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• I've always watched the political shows.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Political
  • Always
  • Shows

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hate

• Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Painting
  • Look

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Boy

• I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Find

• Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Value
  • Positive
  • Negative

• It's definitely fun when you're able to translate your practice into the game. It's fun, and you know that your hard work paid off.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Game

• For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Importance
  • Subject
  • Convey

• My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

  

  Lennie James
  • Time
  • Character

• Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Moving