Sara Teasdale Quotes

The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.

Sara Teasdale

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• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Brain
  • Start
  • You Can Do It

• All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • You
  • Hate
  • Call

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Lights

• I have an appetite to always learn.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Always
  • Learn
  • Appetite

• I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Hurt
  • Winning
  • Ability

• People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • School
  • Learn

• The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Problem

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Strong
  • Goal
  • Be Strong

• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Think
  • Now

• This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Change
  • Say

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Tragic

• The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and I have to make the most of it, and these are the people who are near me, and so they will become my family."

  

  Ian Bogost
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Pretty
  • Try
  • Expression

• Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Feel

• It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Treatment
  • Long Time
  • Surgery

• The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Shadow