Eugenio Montale Quotes

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

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• I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Night
  • Star
  • Sun

• I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Girl
  • Amazing
  • Myself

• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Important
  • Job
  • Hair

• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Suffering
  • Importance
  • Scale

• When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • American
  • New

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.

  

  Carla Hall
  • School
  • Why
  • Me

• The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Future
  • Idea
  • Debt

• The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Good
  • Society
  • Economy

• Read books. They are good for us.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Good
  • Books
  • U.S.

• I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• Like all boys my age, I was an idiot when it came to women.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Women
  • Age

• Everyone always says the middle child is the worst or whatever - what do they say? That everyone forgets about them? But that's not true. That's not true in my family.

  

  Chris Gronkowski
  • Family
  • True

• People have labeled me homophobic. If I was homophobic, I wouldn't have friends who are gay and lesbian, so that can't be true.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Friends
  • True

• Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Money
  • Goodbye

• Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Men
  • Women

• You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • People

• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Education
  • Learning

• In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.

  

  Ken Salazar
  • Time
  • Energy

• It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Car

• Wife sounded like something exciting, something daring, something a bit scoundrelly, like pirate or bandit. And they were bandits, of course.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Wife
  • Exciting
  • Bandit

• Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Reality
  • Wish

• All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Money

• Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Poetry
  • Images
  • Paints