Wallace Stevens Quotes

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

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• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

  

  B. B. King
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Style

• I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Up
  • Love
  • May

• I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • World
  • You
  • Crazy

• There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Innocent
  • Policy

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels

• I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy
  • Relationship
  • Very

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Golf

• It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Expression

• When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
  • Like
  • Market

• I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Mother
  • Desire
  • Myself

• A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Women

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Life
  • Play
  • Luck

• Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Change
  • Wall
  • President

• When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Upset

• I am always a sucker for the underdogs. I love Batman and Superman, but when it comes to the guys who don't stand in the front of the line, Aquaman is one of the key guys for me. He's so much fun to work on.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Superman

• I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?

  

  Owen Hart
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Stupid

• When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People
  • Music
  • Mexican

• When God comes A great noise will pierce us, The day of judgment terribly. Messengers from the door, Wind, and sea, and fire. lightning and thunder A number without flattery. The people of the world groaning Will be concealed.

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Trying
  • Queens
  • Glamour

• The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Power
  • Imagination
  • Chaos