Ada Limon Quotes
And I never knew survival was like that. If you live, you look back and beg for it again, the hazardous bliss before you know what you would miss.
Ada Limon
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
Harold Brodkey
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He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
Dan Simmons
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In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot, there are 256 different 'over-and-under' arrangements possible... Make only one change in this 'over and under' sequence and either an entirely different knot is made or no knot at all may result.
Annie Proulx
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That there is pain and evil, is no ruleThat I should make it greater, like a fool.
Leigh Hunt
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
Jeanette Winterson
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I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.
Clare Balding
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My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
Donatella Versace
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Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.
David Neeleman
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
Anne Stevenson
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The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.
David Farr
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We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.
Tom Shadyac
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What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.
Isaac Watts
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My father is my idol, and I have grown up watching his films. He is my biggest influence and inspiration. I have learnt a lot from him, and I am who I am because of him. I'm extremely grateful to him for that.
Mahesh Babu
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A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
Charlie Byrd
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That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.
Scott Westerfeld
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And I never knew survival was like that. If you live, you look back and beg for it again, the hazardous bliss before you know what you would miss.
Ada Limon
