Alice Notley Quotes

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

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• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• 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

• I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Cool
  • Nothing
  • Punishment

• 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 think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Think
  • Now

• 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

• He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Very

• 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

• It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Look

• I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through belief in the Thrones, Through confession of the Oneness Towards the Creator.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Today

• Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Marijuana

• As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

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

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Small

• Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • People
  • Writing
  • Done

• I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Life
  • Rest

• I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.

  

  Richie Furay Buffalo Springfield
  • Thought
  • Politics
  • Conservative

• It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • God

• My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.

  

  David Mixner
  • Family
  • Universe
  • Cool

• 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