Theodore Roethke Quotes

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

Theodore Roethke

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• I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Great
  • Important
  • Writing

• Fashion breaks my heart.

  

  Kanye West
  • Heart
  • Fashion
  • Breaks

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Day

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Depth
  • Length

• The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Future
  • Young
  • Influence

• We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Culture
  • Worry
  • Something

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Like

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Black
  • Find
  • Anything

• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Life
  • True
  • Beautiful

• Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Energy

• Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Real
  • Earth

• I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.

  

  Ellen Gallagher
  • Past
  • Present

• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Strength
  • Motherhood

• I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

  

  Lucian Freud
  • Art
  • Painting

• Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Art
  • Sometimes
  • Competition

• Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Art
  • Death
  • Defense