Alice Notley Quotes

We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.

Alice Notley

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• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Question
  • Two
  • Sides

• 'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Just
  • Saying
  • Fat

• We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Work
  • President
  • Will

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Content

• It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Perfect
  • Being
  • Very

• The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Loved

• 'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Small

• I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Up
  • Support

• The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • World
  • Free
  • Past

• Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Competition
  • Innovation

• Cities must be fun.

  

  James Rouse
  • Fun

• Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

  

  Brett Ratner
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Up
  • Writing

• It's so hard to cover Trump. What Trump says, what he feels, what he thinks changes from day to day.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Trump

• I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

  

  Delta Goodrem
  • Learning

• In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

  

  Luis de Guindos
  • Long
  • High

• The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Firsts

• The journey of the soul is a vast, interconnected web, a meshwork of beings that are all working out their individual karmas in a collective gumbo, retaining the special flavor in each bite of life. But, the mystery of where we're going, in terms of whether we're going to have a planet that's worth living on after we finish abusing it, whether we'll wake up in time and stop ruining the water, land and skies is a big question mark.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Life
  • She
  • Moving

• I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an action movie. I'd never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.

  

  Bonnie Bedelia
  • Truth
  • Movie
  • Action

• We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.

  

  Alice Notley
  • Words
  • Cure
  • Wildness