Sufjan Stevens Quotes

There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.

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• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Happy
  • You

• Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • People
  • Kids
  • Lost

• Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Growing
  • Princess

• A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Lost

• Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Security
  • Immigration

• People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Know
  • Politics

• I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Father
  • Relationship

• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moving
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Just
  • Singer

• Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Character
  • History
  • Evil

• I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

  

  Bram Fischer
  • Fear
  • Wish

• Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Great
  • Women
  • Book

• You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Work
  • Success

• I always knew I wanted to be in a band.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Band

• You have to train a dog to think.

  

  Donald McCaig
  • Dog

• This be an empty world without the blues.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • World
  • Blues

• Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Earth
  • Imagine
  • Flying

• I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Say
  • Save
  • Todd

• Power is the ability not to have to please.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Power
  • inspirational
  • Ability

• It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Way

• There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Moving
  • Stories
  • Brilliant