Theodore Roethke Quotes
Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.
Quotes to Explore
-
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
-
Music will always be my greatest passion.
-
During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
-
Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
-
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
-
Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
-
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
-
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
-
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
-
I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
-
After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
-
I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
-
I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
-
The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.
-
I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!
-
But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
-
As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
-
Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
-
I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic.
-
Things don't happen for no reason.
-
Men can do all things if they will.
-
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
-
I`m impressed that people out there in Pennsylvania, deer hunter country, have had it with these stupid wars, that they don`t go along with the neocon theology, they don`t go along with the big money people or the evangelicals that always seem to want to fight, especially in the Middle East.
-
Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.
