Hart Crane Quotes

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

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• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  

  B. B. King
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Night

• I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Happy
  • Free

• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Evil

• To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

  

  Maimonides
  • Law
  • Perfect
  • Possible

• I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Day
  • December

• The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

  

  Chung Mong-joon
  • War
  • Cold

• When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a little bit and do some stuff. I thought that was pretty loose, but then coming on 'Happy Endings,' it's even looser.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• In pop music, people take a stand. When you look at a Beyonce or a Kendrick Lamar, they are going to tell you what they think. And audiences totally get it. They totally love it, and they are totally hungry for it. But in our conservatory training, I think it's a little lacking.

  

  Du Yun
  • People
  • Music
  • Training

• Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.

  

  Bennet Omalu
  • Long
  • Bad
  • Brain

• There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.

  

  Bobby Schilling
  • Up
  • Walking

• I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • People
  • Depression

• There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

  

  Brian Moore
  • People

• I'm not comfortable as a lead singer. Maybe I could do it in the studio, but I wouldn't have the confidence to play shows.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Confidence

• When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Technology
  • Photography

• Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

  

  David Rudisha
  • Up
  • Good
  • Training

• I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Life
  • Together

• Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Growth
  • Discipline
  • Discomfort

• In some places the metropolis makes do with paying a clique of feudal overlords; in others, it has fabricated a fake bourgeoisie of colonized subjects in a system of divide and rule; elsewhere, it has killed two birds with one stone: the colony is both settlement and exploitation.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Fake

• What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Real
  • Strange
  • Fake

• The Scottish Himalaya Expedition (1951) The 'Goethe couplet' referred to here is from an extremely loose translation of Faust 214-30 done by John Anster in 1835. Reference:

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Done

• I like people who are devoted to me: men who know I'm the most fabulous thing in the world, and they just look at me with adoration. That's how my dad looked at my mom, and that's how I expected to be looked at.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

  

  Hart Crane
  • Fake
  • Ruin
  • Mockery