Theodore Roethke Quotes

In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.

Theodore Roethke

• Light
• Bird
• Wings
• Beats
• Dare
• Emptiness
• Immense

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  Zhang Ziyi
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• I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

  

  Barry Schwartz
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• Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.

  

  Kate Voegele
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• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • True

• Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. … Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • People
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• To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

  

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• My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile - there's a million things that are happening, a million firsts, and to be able to witness that and record that is a privilege.

  

  Jenny Han
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• SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins

• I believe that I'm a special player. I think people love the way I just try to play. I don't try to impress anyone when I'm playing or anything. I just have a feel for the game.

  

  Derrick Rose
  • People
  • Believe
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• The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

  

  Jim Hightower
  • Road

• I don't have one polarizing message. It is just about being consistent over the years.

  

  Andre Ward

• It's not about being the biggest or the place with the most pins in a map. We want to be the most influential. We talk about trying to build the most influential agency in the world.

  

  David Droga
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• I'm a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday.

  

  Dove Cameron
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• 'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
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• The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
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• The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

  

  Bobby Brown
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• My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Work
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• Dieu est le seul être qui, pour régner, n'ait même pas besoin d'exister.Ce qui est créé par l’esprit est plus vivant que la matière.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Light
  • Bird
  • Wings