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

• 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

• 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

• Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

  

  Margaret Wertheim
  • World
  • Powerful

• I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Words

• My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Words
  • Mean

• If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Life
  • Game

• Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Life
  • Political

• Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.

  

  William Penn
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Reason

• 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