Wallace Stevens Quotes

He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general

Wallace Stevens

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• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • World
  • Food
  • Best

• Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • End

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • You
  • Lies

• Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Rock

• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Numbers
  • Manners
  • Morals

• From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Speak
  • Now
  • England

• I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • She
  • Think

• I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Up
  • Always
  • Beer

• I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Different
  • Something

• I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Language
  • Gujarati

• I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Movies
  • Original

• Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Black
  • Goodness
  • Lake

• Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Happy
  • Support

• Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Different
  • Children
  • Rest

• Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality. (page 85)

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Reality
  • Knowledge
  • Intelligent

• To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

  

  LeBron James
  • Player
  • Determination

• Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Science
  • Authority
  • Enchantment

• I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Work
  • Mad

• People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Free
  • Influence

• He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general

  

  Wallace Stevens