Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

Edith Pearlman
- World
- Language
- Natural
This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'

Kate Beckinsale
- Woman
- Daughter
- Sick
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

Rachel Brosnahan
- Want
- Competition
- Lose
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
- Want
- Something
- Go
I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

Samantha Power
- Learned
- Irish
- German
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

Earl Weaver
- Way
- Swing
- Bat