Stephen Dunn Quotes

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

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• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Success
  • Being
  • Potential

• Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Kid

• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Me
  • Democracy

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Speak

• African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Family
  • Problem
  • Racism

• I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Real

• What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Mediocrity

• The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Integrity

• I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Doing

• When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Fear
  • Model

• I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

  

  Imogene Coca
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Comedy

• If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Water
  • Stealing

• I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Work
  • Black
  • Know

• I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Films
  • Psychological

• I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Today
  • Want
  • Know

• Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Gravity

• A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Live
  • Home
  • Age

• Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Ruin
  • Dominate
  • Drain

• I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • School
  • Band
  • Comics

• Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Said
  • Shock
  • Tone

• Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Said
  • Proof