Theodore Roethke Quotes

The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

Theodore Roethke

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• The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Same

• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Law
  • Fashion
  • Influence

• My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Know

• Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Happy
  • High
  • City

• I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We're going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I'm cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I'm taking you down.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Fight
  • Cutting

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.

  

  Yaphet Kotto
  • Myself
  • Afraid
  • Either

• When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Work
  • May
  • Taken

• If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Poetry
  • Body

• I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Success

• When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Know
  • Chances

• You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Love
  • Sometimes
  • For Her

• In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ambition
  • Modern
  • Ideals

• When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Car
  • Down
  • Nobody

• The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Trust
  • Israel
  • Disrespect

• I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Day
  • Loved

• In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Energy

• You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Want
  • Determined
  • Chapter

• You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • History
  • Hope
  • Desire

• The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Want
  • Desire
  • Partners