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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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
Fay Wray -
If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
Parker Stevenson -
I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
Manny Pacquiao -
I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
Carl Lewis -
When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
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 -
He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
Dan Simmons -
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 -
That there is pain and evil, is no ruleThat I should make it greater, like a fool.
Leigh Hunt -
I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
Jeanette Winterson -
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 -
Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.
David Neeleman -
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 -
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 -
The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
Lisa See
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
Ian Mckellen -
I need to sleep more. The 'sleep when I die' mantra is not cute.
Luvvie Ajayi -
I like Nasser. He’s creepy, but he seems sensible. For a vampire.
Carrie Vaughn -
You do the things you have to do in the order you have to do them.
Hank Green -
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