Wallace Stevens Quotes

The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.

Wallace Stevens

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• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Generation
  • Own

• The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Person
  • Moment
  • Everything

• You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Thought
  • My Life

• The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Great
  • Win
  • motivation

• When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Water
  • Enough
  • Cooking

• My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Success
  • Professional
  • Act

• I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Done
  • Me
  • Early

• We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Up
  • Work
  • Coffee

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Shopping
  • Vintage

• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Interesting
  • Nice
  • Pain

• Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Sea

• Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Sea
  • Soldier

• Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.

  

  Ovid

• Human nature is accused of much more selfishness than it really has ; a thousand kindly emotions break in upon and redeem our daily and interested life.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Daily

• My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.

  

  David Plouffe
  • Good
  • Believe
  • America

• My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • World
  • Real
  • War

• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wonder

• Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Army
  • Battle
  • Wins

• Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Conscious
  • Weight
  • Aspect

• The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.

  

  Wallace Stevens