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

• The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• 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

• We have to slowly, carefully, and thoughtfully align all of our interests.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Interests
  • Slowly
  • Align

• A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Social
  • Evolution

• My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • People
  • Happy
  • Inspired

• 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