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

• Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Space
  • Acting
  • 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

• I'm perpetually lonely.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Lonely
  • Perpetually

• 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

• When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Time
  • Light
  • Dark

• I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Society

• Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Age

• I'm tired of playing freaking cha-chas, the sassy CIA agent, the best friend homegirl. I'm tired of that!

  

  Melonie Diaz
  • Friend
  • Playing
  • Sassy

• I have gone into the waste lonely places

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Lonely
  • Places