Stephen Dunn Quotes
There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to be suspicious of ideas and suspicious of your own mind at the same time. It's often a matter of orchestration and pacing. Of shaping some kind of dialectic flow.Stephen Dunn
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
Ted McGinley -
I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
Bassem Youssef -
This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
Ted Deutch -
It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
Harry Browne -
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.
Samuel Fuller -
I don't mean to be funny.
Yogi Berra
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
Carly Fiorina -
The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.
Zach Galligan -
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
Edmund Wilson -
Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.
Arthur C. Clarke -
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein -
I don't wanna look like a 65-year-old geezer, you know, and I can't really see it happening.
Pete Burns
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I used to overpack a lot and sometimes even forgot vital pieces of clothing, such as my swimming shorts and sandals. I'm much better now. I only take what I know I'm going to wear or use and always double-check my suitcase so I don't have to rush to the nearest clothing store when I unpack at the hotel.
Jean Reno -
When I got outta school, I didn't know what I was gonna do with my life. I knew I didn't have much in the grades department, and so I was very fearful. A whole lot of fear.
Chris Farley -
One of the great things that playwright A.R. Gurney does in 'Sylvia' is he gives language to the emotional gestures and energy that our dogs give to us when they're communicating.
Annaleigh Ashford -
I'm flattered that people want to hear me talk about nothing.
Busy Philipps -
Whatever it is that my heart wants, I'll do it, which is different than I used to be. I used to tell my heart what it wanted.
Kevin Parker Tame Impala -
I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'
Demetri Martin
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I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
Jane Velez-Mitchell -
The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions.
Martin Rees -
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.
John Joseph Lydon -
As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!
Richard Feynman -
The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to be suspicious of ideas and suspicious of your own mind at the same time. It's often a matter of orchestration and pacing. Of shaping some kind of dialectic flow.
Stephen Dunn