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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• After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
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  • Learn

• 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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  • Rock
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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
  • People
  • Want
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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
  • God
  • Heart
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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
  • Life
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• To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
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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
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 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
  • World
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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
  • Holiday
  • Halloween

• There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • World
  • Free
  • Freedom

• We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

  

  Lilly Ledbetter
  • Work
  • American
  • Value

• With Big Bird we knew we wanted to do a large, a great big character. He should represent a child so he can make the kinds of mistakes that kids make, and talk about it and be out front about that.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Great
  • Character
  • Kids

• For in that universal call, Few bankers will to heaven be mounters; They'll cry, "Ye shops, upon us fall! Conceal and cover us, ye counters! When other hands the scales shall hold, And they, in men's and angels' sight Produced with all their bills and gold, 'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Light
  • Heaven
  • Balance

• 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