Eudora Welty Quotes

Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.

Eudora Welty

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• Reading
• Eye
• Humans
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• Inward

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• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Looking
  • Against
  • Phone

• I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Love
  • Chocolate

• I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Always
  • Singing
  • Kid

• Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Night
  • Always
  • Makeup

• There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Deep
  • Balance
  • Theatre

• I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Me
  • Tool
  • saw

• I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Dog
  • Try
  • Will

• I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn’t have.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Lost

• I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Fun
  • Movie
  • Song

• As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

  

  Charles Bass
  • House

• I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

  

  Lisa Tuttle

• For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Long
  • Path
  • Unique

• There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Fall

• I don't have a religion, but I respect them.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Respect

• I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

  

  Aubrey Plaza
  • Good
  • Business
  • Job

• I often say that I want to write like Tupac rapped. I could listen to his album, and within a few minutes, I could go from thinking deeply to laughing to crying to partying.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Thinking
  • Crying

• I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Up
  • Society
  • Growing

• From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Design
  • Inspiration
  • Perspective

• Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Book
  • Cooking
  • Clever

• All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Kind
  • Boys
  • Dull Jackasses

• Could she learn to like this guy? "“It's nice to meet you." Kylie plastered a warm expression on her face. But she worried he could tell it was a sham. "The pleasure is all mine," he said. Kylie just smiled. He was completely right about that.

  

  Christie Craig
  • She
  • Guy
  • Nice

• Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Eye