Galway Kinnell Quotes

Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness...

Galway Kinnell

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• My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Revolution
  • New
  • New York

• I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Think
  • Find
  • Dinosaur

• A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Me
  • Strength
  • Interested

• My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Good
  • Father
  • Strong

• In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Simple

• The cool thing about directing is, whatever cool thing works in the scene, it's still making the episode be a great story, and everyone's working toward that goal, so it doesn't much matter where it's coming from.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Great
  • Cool

• Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Jane D. Hull
  • Safety

• When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.

  

  Burning Spear
  • People
  • Work
  • Patience

• 'Grey's Anatomy,' that was a great show to be part of, but they work really long hours. They were all just really tired. Just worn out.

  

  Jesse Plemons
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• Some people can act Hollywood and others don't. I just try to live my life as a normal, everyday man. At times, fame does get to you. But you must stay positive and remember two things: It's easier to be happy, and without all those fans, life wouldn't be as good as it is.

  

  Chumlee
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment.

  

  Linda Lavin
  • World
  • She
  • Alone

• Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

  

  Jeff Perry
  • Character

• So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

  

  Maurice Strong
  • Up

• My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

  

  Andra Day
  • Holiday

• Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • People
  • Career

• Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Future
  • Relationship
  • Forgiveness

• They were there first. That's an advantage to have had real experience with real customers.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Advantage

• I will finish what I have begun. I have said it. This is my khanate.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Finish
  • Begun
  • Khanate

• For so many of my characters, they were political in their own countries and they risked their lives for certain political beliefs that they had, only to be brought to America where they're not treated like Americans - they're just not really treated like anything.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Character
  • Political
  • Certain

• Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Lie
  • Loveliness
  • Dullness

• As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth
  • Changes
  • Kingdom

• Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness...

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Loveliness
  • Reteach