Theodore Roethke Quotes
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore RoethkeTheodore Roethke
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
Ichiro Suzuki -
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
Gary Lineker -
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
L. Neil Smith -
One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Fidel Castro -
I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
Taylor Momsen -
Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
Otis Rush -
When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.
Patricia McBride -
Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing? Well, why not? Is not the whole world enveloped by nothingness? Since you concede that point, admit as well that it is just as easy for the world to have nothingness within as without.
Cyrano de Bergerac -
My friends are gone and My hair is grey. I ache in the places where I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm just paying my rent everyday In the Tower Of Song.
Leonard Cohen
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Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.
Elton John -
One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
Adrian Cronauer -
I grew up with action movies in my head.
Christian Kane -
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.
Christopher Meloni -
I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
Joe Murray -
Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?
Jared Diamond
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I'm dark-skinned. When I'm around black people, I'm made to feel 'other' because I'm dark-skinned. I've had to wrestle with that, with people going, 'You're too black.' Then I come to America, and they say, 'You're not black enough.'
Daniel Kaluuya -
When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!
Oswald Chambers -
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.
W. Somerset Maugham -
As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.
Sanjay Dutt -
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke