Joyce Kilmer Quotes

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

Joyce Kilmer

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• I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Good
  • Country
  • School

• I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Time
  • Same
  • Ego

• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Church
  • Never
  • Hell

• To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Me
  • Voice
  • Stronger

• We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Mind
  • Numbers

• I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Time
  • Body
  • Drink

• You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Fun
  • Risk
  • Skiing

• I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Drama

• The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Personal
  • Dignity
  • Treasure

• As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Worse
  • Citizen
  • Variety

• Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.

  

  John Waters
  • Boy

• You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Life
  • Different
  • Person

• One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Inspiration
  • Results

• Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Strong
  • Fashion
  • Mathematics

• When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Men
  • Money
  • Know

• Truth is not always injured by fiction.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • Truth
  • Fiction

• Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Respect
  • Delusion
  • Delicate

• “Telling stories about your memory of what happened may be entertaining for a while, but if that is all you can do it gets boring pretty fast.”

  

  Brad Blanton
  • Stories
  • Memory

• All you really have in the end are your stories.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • End
  • Stories

• Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Performance

• So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger", in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Shirley Valentine

• If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

  

  Joyce Kilmer
  • Stories
  • Tell
  • Boundaries