George Oppen Quotes

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

George Oppen

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• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• All four majors are definitely a priority.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Priority
  • Four
  • Majors

• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Matter

• That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Most
  • Australia
  • Countryside

• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Birthday

• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Brazil

• Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Food
  • Quality
  • Brain

• This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Reality
  • Immigration
  • Trail

• Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Wealth
  • Environmental
  • Rise

• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Important
  • Job
  • Hair

• I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Grateful
  • Ready
  • Lady

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Stevie

• Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Work
  • Men
  • Crazy

• I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Like

• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Good
  • Flame
  • Committee

• Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Society

• Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.

  

  Luis Figo
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm in an area where I want to make music that I'm thrilled with, but, you know, I do have to worry about putting food on the table. I'm in that position where I cannot always be gauging what things might become. I have to look ahead, because I'm cautious.

  

  Jakob Dylan
  • Music
  • Food
  • Worry

• If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Up
  • Family
  • Remember

• Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

  

  George Oppen
  • Time
  • Question
  • Poetry