Theodore Roethke Quotes

Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Theodore Roethke

• Running
• Simple
• Eye
• Enough
• Feet
• Grass
• Minnows

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• You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

  

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

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• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

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• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  

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• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

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• With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.

  

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• A house is kind of scary.

  

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• My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

  

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• I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

  

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• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  

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• Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

  

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• Don't be afraid to look silly.

  

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• I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

  

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• Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

  

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• The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

  

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• We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

  

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• Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  

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• One of my obsession is animals. I'm into dog rescues. It drives me crazy when people go to pet stores and buy dogs. There are so many dogs that need a good home. And this sounds crazy, but I really believe they know what is happening and are appreciative, and I just think they make for the best pets.

  

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• Why should I crowd the world with my opinions? Live and let live. That's it. Let people have their own opinions, and you just keep yours to yourself. There are too many opinions - some unnecessary, some great, some ridiculously stupid - so I think I rather not say anything and keep my opinions to myself.

  

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• Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.

  

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• I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

  

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• Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

  

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• Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Running
  • Simple
  • Eye