Stephen Dunn Quotes

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • High
  • Water

• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Experience
  • Road
  • Acceptance

• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Reality
  • Entertainment

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Death

• What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Money
  • Dress

• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Find

• I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Like
  • Fact
  • Glass

• I love to be surprised.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Surprised

• We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Trying
  • Technology
  • Environment

• I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Myself

• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Solution

• My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Small
  • Know
  • English

• As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Time
  • Art
  • Interesting

• There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Great
  • History
  • Past

• Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • True
  • Star
  • Sun

• We've been going through some growing pains getting established, but I think it will continue to get better. I could see it becoming very successful.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Growing
  • Successful
  • Pains

• I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

  

  Jonah Hill
  • Failure
  • I Do
  • Psyched

• It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Matter
  • Working Hard

• No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Alcohol
  • Cigarettes
  • Pork

• Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Purpose
  • Answers
  • Links