Robert Frost Quotes

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

Robert Frost

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• Craving
• Overpowering

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• I never read the tabloids.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Never
  • Read
  • Tabloids

• Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Men
  • High
  • Singing

• In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Wall
  • Research
  • Street

• I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Culture
  • Like

• I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Long
  • Live

• Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Sure

• Just like Lara Jean in my book 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before,' I used to write letters to boys I was in love with - letters full of emotion and longing and also recrimination - but they were for my eyes only.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Book
  • Eyes

• I'd be talking to other coaches, and he walked up and joined the conversation.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Coaches

• Quite simply I've distilled my mission down to the essence. The only thing I'm really here to do is shine light on people's lives through music, through laughter and to simply enjoy being with people.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Music
  • Light

• Risk is inherent in the market, ... We all understand that and we thrive on that; what we don't tolerate is fraud.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Risk
  • Market
  • Tolerate

• Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Grief

• Take Back the Night' isn't just about domestic violence, 'Take Back the Night' is also about being safe going back to your car safety, child's safety, women' safety, men's safety - it's just about not being afraid to be out in the evening. It's for everybody not just women and children, it's for everybody.

  

  Elizabeth Fry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Happy
  • Birthday
  • Three

• I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.

  

  Gabriel Orozco
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Small

• Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Disaster
  • Architect
  • Thrive

• I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Cause
  • Skating
  • Riot

• Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Class
  • Top
  • Ivy League schools

• As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

  

  Joseph Kosinski
  • Want
  • Know
  • Director

• Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Love
  • Human Beings
  • Affection

• How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Love
  • Patience
  • Affection

• I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

  

  Rene Auberjonois
  • Great
  • Together
  • Father

• Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Affection
  • Craving
  • Overpowering