Wallace Stevens Quotes

To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.

Wallace Stevens

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Best
  • Unexpected

• Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Death

• The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Industry
  • Publishing

• Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Love
  • Comfort
  • Protect

• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Sympathetic

• Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Selling

• I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Know
  • Mystery
  • Not Knowing

• You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Artist
  • White

• I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Career
  • College
  • Model

• The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • School
  • Day
  • Leadership

• People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Successful
  • Gift

• We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Only
  • We Cannot

• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Right
  • Wait

• Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Fall
  • Big
  • Nobody

• I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Say
  • Lot
  • Had

• My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Faith
  • Practice
  • Beauty

• Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Good
  • Different
  • Happy

• They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed-run over, maimed, destroyed-but they continued to play anyhow.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Children

• I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one—at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Control
  • Brave
  • Trapped

• It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

  

  Charles Eastman
  • Women

• Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Simple

• To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.

  

  Wallace Stevens