Wallace Stevens Quotes

The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.

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• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Life
  • Up
  • Art

• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
  • War

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Start
  • Losing
  • Tough

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • Want
  • Student

• I won't join another band again.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band
  • Again
  • Join

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Little
  • Got
  • Tomboy

• I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Great
  • Different

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Simple
  • Respond
  • Complex

• I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Confidence
  • Television

• It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • American
  • Doubt
  • Conversation

• We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Musicians

• Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

  

  Aristotle
  • Facts
  • Animals
  • Divine

• There is this real divisive theory that if we allow more immigrants to come into this country, that they're going to take our jobs. It is simply not true. Every person I know who wants to work in a hotel and change sheets can do it.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Work
  • Country
  • Real

• ... for the Doctor observed, that no man takes upon himself small blemishes without supposing that great abilities are attributed to him; and that, in short, this affectation of candour or modesty was but another kind of indirect self-praise, and had its foundation in vanity.

  

  James Boswell
  • Great
  • Small

• The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Star
  • Celebrity

• My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Habit

• The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Romantic