John Ciardi Quotes

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

John Ciardi

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• I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Book
  • Learn
  • Teach

• At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Men
  • Black
  • Fashion

• Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Real
  • Focus
  • New

• You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • May
  • Home

• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Feeling
  • Never
  • Returning

• You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • You
  • Dog
  • Kindness

• In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Fear
  • Football
  • Expectations

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Words
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Questions
  • Research
  • Glad

• When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Perception

• I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Like
  • Really
  • While

• I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • People
  • Long
  • Children

• If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Beliefs

• We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Common
  • Through

• I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Nature
  • Me
  • Grow

• I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Sound
  • Selfish

• From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Political
  • Wall
  • Spring

• So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.

  

  Gayle King
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I don't know of a filmmaker who does not feel buoyed and lifted when their peers embrace the work.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Work

• Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.

  

  David Hayter
  • Acting
  • Story
  • Jobs

• I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that we have, the school that Will and I have, is not a Scientology school. And that, you know, I know there's been, you know, a lot of buzz around that idea and that it is not my desire to, you know, teach Scientology at all.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • School
  • Desire

• It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Health
  • Humans
  • Understood

• Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

  

  John Ciardi