Stephen Dunn Quotes

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

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• It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Young
  • Strange
  • Senior

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Journey
  • Limits
  • Reggae

• My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • She

• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Space
  • Before
  • Space Program

• Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • You
  • Know
  • Nonprofit

• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hair
  • Cure
  • Gray

• My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Gold

• Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Career
  • Fear

• During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Time
  • Men
  • Competition

• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Write

• Ever since my childhood, I had seen my father carrying so many bags- suitcases with false bottoms , leather satchels or overnight bags, even those black briefcases that gave him a false air of repectability…. And I never knew just what was in them. ( 52 )

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Father
  • Black
  • Air

• My response to Bernie Sanders' you know uh stories you know fairytales is that uh the failure of capitalism is still much better than the success of socialism.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Success
  • Failure

• 「吾任天下之智力，以道御之，無所不可．」

  

  Cao Cao

• I write emotional music.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Music
  • Emotional

• I try to stay aggressive for the most part, dictating, whatever the situation may be. Just trying to do whatever I can to help the team win.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Trying
  • May
  • Help

• I've actually medalled in every single swimming meet except for the Olympics, so that's the goal. I want to get on that podium - I really do. But for me, that's not something I can control... so I will be happy with going out there and swimming a race that I'm proud of.

  

  Alia Atkinson
  • Happy
  • Control
  • Single

• When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • God
  • Done
  • Miracle

• I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm the type of actor who goes to work, transforms into a character, takes you on a journey, and then comes back home to be Billy. When I'm in it, I'm in it, but I know how to get out of it. When you can't shut it off, you're a crazy person. I'm not crazy.

  

  Billy Porter
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Time
  • Good
  • Money

• It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Up

• It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.

  

  Ksenia Solo
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Moments
  • Curious
  • Elegance