Sara Teasdale Quotes

One by one, like leaves from a tree, All my faiths have forsaken me.

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• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • My Own

• OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Sports
  • Model
  • Same

• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Best
  • Give
  • Unable

• Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Done
  • Always
  • Better

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Help
  • Thought
  • Movies

• You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Down

• The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Friends
  • Small
  • Interesting

• I don't feel like I have to apologize for being a technophile, ever. Technology is awesome and lets me do so much. Nor do I feel like I have to apologize for loving my work.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Work
  • Technology
  • Feel

• We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Children
  • Food

• ... bloße Erfahrung ist keine Wissenschaft.

  

  Edmund Husserl

• 'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • God
  • Silence

• All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Personality
  • Laughter

• There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Power

• I'm playing a cat burglar. I've made it. This is the high point of my career. I'm really chuffed.

  

  Sam Neill
  • High
  • Career
  • Cat

• Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Flower

• I pack on mass quickly when I lift.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Mass
  • Quickly
  • Lift

• Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Tree

• You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Tree

• One by one, like leaves from a tree, All my faiths have forsaken me.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Tree
  • Leaves
  • Faiths