William Stafford Quotes
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.William Stafford
Quotes to Explore
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler -
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge -
Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair -
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
Randeep Hooda -
VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
Palmer Luckey -
I've always been happy with my body.
Venus Williams
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
Vin Diesel -
Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.
Samira Wiley -
There's no people like show people.
Irving Berlin -
My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
Victor Mitchell -
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Flannery O'Connor -
I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
Felix Baumgartner
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
Tamra Davis -
I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
Nate Diaz -
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
Orson Pratt -
Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
Jackie Kennedy -
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt -
All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
Frances Beinecke
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To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.
Ana Castillo -
The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.
Oprah Winfrey -
Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.
Marco Bizzarri -
I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.
Emily Oster -
When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.
William Stafford