Robert Frost Quotes

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
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• In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Blue

• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Play
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• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
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• I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Right

• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Horror

• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Love
  • She
  • Night

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Think
  • Know
  • Personality

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Like
  • Author
  • Very

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Disappointed

• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Souls
  • Corporations
  • Treason

• Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Long
  • Wonder

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Me
  • Training
  • Providence

• It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Running
  • Moving
  • Leadership

• I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Family
  • Sick

• Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Joy

• Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Wise
  • Enlightened

• When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Clever
  • Despair