John Ashbery Quotes
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.John Ashbery
Quotes to Explore
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
J. J. Watt -
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand -
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
Ed Harris -
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett -
It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
Nargis Fakhri -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky -
I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
Val McDermid -
I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
Laura Dern -
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
M. J. Rose -
My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
Zubin Mehta
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
Karan Mahajan -
I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
Larry Fitzgerald -
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. Hinton -
I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
Zachary Quinto -
History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
Ralph Chaplin
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
Ingvar Kamprad -
There are so many different narrative traditions across the world, and each of those traditions has evolved dramatically over time. Once I understood that, I felt truly free; I could write and invent the way I wanted to because there never has been only one way to tell a good story.
Ken Liu -
We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
Faith Baldwin -
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus -
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
John Ashbery