Theodore Roethke Quotes

I have gone into the waste lonely places

Theodore Roethke

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• I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Never
  • Lonely
  • Bored

• A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Family
  • Change
  • Places

• I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • You
  • Places
  • Toilet

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Lonely

• I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Great
  • Men
  • High

• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
  • Mountains
  • Places

• As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd do in Wyoming. I really don't know what I'd do. I would probably have a heart attack because I'd be so lonely, and I'd actually have to listen to myself think. That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people as well.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

  

  Larry David
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Guy

• I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Years
  • Sad
  • Lonely

• Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • China
  • Places
  • Oil

• I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Choose
  • Shopping
  • Places

• When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better; when I felt lonely, I would eat.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Where
  • Places
  • Tourist

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Happy
  • Child
  • Lonely

• Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Places
  • Outsiders

• It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Why
  • High

• I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn't have to be like that.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Believe
  • Leadership
  • Lonely

• What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

  

  William Glasser
  • Today
  • Past
  • Deals

• If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break In music, sweeter than it ever gave, As when a breeze breathes o'er some sleeping lake, And laughs in every wave.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Music
  • She
  • Smile

• But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.

  

  Alex Chiu
  • Parents
  • Chinese

• I have gone into the waste lonely places

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Lonely
  • Places