Theodore Roethke Quotes
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
Quotes to Explore
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
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I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.
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I don’t want Salman Khan to be remembered as a star, actor. That is not my priority in life.
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I want a girlfriend who can eat like me.
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Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?
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Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.
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[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons.
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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
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She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
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A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
