James Schuyler Quotes

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

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• Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Problem
  • Possible
  • Theory

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • First
  • Step
  • Key

• I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

  

  M. Ward
  • Good
  • American
  • Sometimes

• We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Work
  • President
  • Will

• Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Sweet

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Think
  • Now

• Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Actions
  • Experiment

• The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • September
  • Egypt

• A film of my life would never happen!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Art
  • Together
  • Years

• There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Job
  • Culture

• Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Idea
  • Surprise
  • Delivery

• When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Done
  • Better

• I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Never

• I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Work
  • Always
  • Motivated

• When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Sometimes
  • Shows
  • Three

• My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Life
  • Words
  • Inspiration

• For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world - not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things - work out rather beautifully.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• The distance between who i am and who i want to be is separated only by my actions and words.

  

  Brian Solis
  • Words
  • Actions

• Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward the enchanted barrier. "When they hear what you did this year?" "Proud?" said Harry. "Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Proud
  • Crazy
  • Uncle

• The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

  

  James Schuyler
  • Words