e. e. cummings Quotes

i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

e. e. cummings

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• You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

  

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• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  

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• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
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• The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

  

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• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

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• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

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• If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

  

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• For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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  • Black
  • Wish

• I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Want
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• Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

  

  G-Eazy
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  • Important
  • Touch

• Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.

  

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• I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

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• Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

  

  Aaron Allston
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  • God
  • Believe

• Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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• I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.

  

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• I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.

  

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• It doesn’t do a great deal to advance the goal of humanity. I would pay $20 million not to spend six months in Russia. And besides this, my interest is how do we enable many other people to go to space, not necessarily me, personally.

  

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• They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

  

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• Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

  

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  • Understanding

• When panting sighs the bosom fill,And hands by chance united thrillAt once with one delicious painThe pulses and the nerves of twain;When eyes that erst could meet with ease,Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shunEcstatic conscious unison,-The sure beginnings, say, be thesePrelusive to the strain of loveWhich angels sing in heaven above?

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Eyes