James Schuyler Quotes

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

James Schuyler

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• In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Immigrants

• I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Different
  • Important
  • Happy

• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Funny

• Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Proud

• The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Happiness
  • Prison
  • Utopia

• I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Terrible
  • Turned
  • After

• If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.

  

  Zendaya
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• Only in space did I realize how lucky I am to be Korean. Only in Korea could I have gone to space before turning 30 years old.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Space
  • Korean

• Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • People
  • History
  • Irish

• In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • World
  • Government
  • Name

• Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Step

• Every fight and every loss taught me something.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Me
  • Fight
  • Loss

• Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Music
  • Creativity
  • Same

• I was a sports kid.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Sports
  • Kid

• Already into the last week of October! The dying fall holds only loneliness. In the garden the chrysanthemums bloom, beautiful, peaceful, as they did a year ago, but the autumn leaves, falling one by one, only make me sad.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Beautiful
  • Fall
  • Sad

• There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Powerful
  • Worry

• Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Time
  • Sex
  • Ugly

• It would be worth the while to look closely into the eye which has been open and seeing at such hours, and in such solitudes, its dull, yellowish, greenish eye. Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Soul
  • Green

• Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Done
  • Moments
  • Risk

• Self-justification - that is, claiming one's innocence and thus in the final analysis blaming God - is an inheritance we have received from Adam and Eve. Even the worst criminals have this urge to exonerate themselves. They claim innocence in the face of the most heinous crimes. Prison chaplains write that there is no place like prison to find so many self-righteous people, maintaining that they are actually innocent. They think they have been imprisoned unjustly. We human beings have an excuse for everything and thus we see no reason why we should repent and turn from our ways. If we think we are in the right, that we have good reason to justify ourselves and say that we are not guilty, why should we repent?

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • Guilty
  • Prison
  • Human Beings

• I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's just something that was really raw and energetic about the early House music. It's hard to describe. It's like you had to go to these parties where the stuff was being played on these huge sound systems to really feel it.

  

  Kaskade
  • Great
  • Music
  • Heart

• So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Children
  • Education
  • Support

• I'm so excited about 'Identity Thief'. It's such a good comedy, and I'm excited for people to go out and see it!

  

  Genesis Rodriguez
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

  

  James Schuyler