e. e. cummings Quotes
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
Quotes to Explore
-
We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
-
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
-
For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
-
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
-
I love cycling.
-
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.
-
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
-
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
-
There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
-
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
-
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
-
Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
-
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
-
The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
-
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
-
I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
-
My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back.
-
Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.
-
I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
-
Crying over what's gone won't find the present.
-
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
