Robert Frost Quotes

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

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• Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Fun
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• You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Film

• I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• After going through that gubernatorial recount and its aftermath, you know confidence was shaken, ... So it's very important that we have good elections this time.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Time
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• I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

  

  Lynn Barber
  • People
  • Believe
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• Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Moving
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• Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Wells
  • Determined

• I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Good
  • Kind

• Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • People
  • Truth
  • Lies

• I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Band

• We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Giving
  • Advice
  • Grain

• The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Soldier
  • Fighter
  • Leads

• When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Religious

• Civil War was recorded by the original line-up.

  

  Darren Arthur Reed Guns N' Roses
  • Civil War
  • Recorded
  • Line Up

• After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink your dad’s rule.” Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You know what? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around me and we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Poem
  • Throat
  • Homesickness