Alicia Ostriker Quotes

Somewhere under the hurricane a sea turtle rows through silence.

Alicia Ostriker

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• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Things

• When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Go

• I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Afraid
  • Someone

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Pride
  • Honor

• My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Year
  • Plan
  • Penny

• Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Alone
  • Prayer

• I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.

  

  Ramakrishna

• Excess is excrement.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.

  

  Edie Sedgwick

• I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will

  

  Edward Everett Hale
  • God

• Over the years I have had the most contact with Lee Kuan Yew, most recently in 2006, and have always found him impressive, even though we do not always see eye to eye. I met him first when he was George Shultz's guest at the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) Bohemian Grove, a male only bonding retreat among the redwoods of California.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Famous
  • Perspective
  • California

• My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable.

  

  Ken Leung
  • Calm

• I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • People
  • Experience

• Thursday night football should be illegal.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Night
  • Football
  • Thursday

• Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • People
  • Work

• Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • World
  • City
  • Heaven

• There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.

  

  Meher Baba
  • Ignorance

• There is no fyre without some smoke.

  

  John Heywood

• Thou spiritual Sun! Satan, Thou Eye, Thou Lust! Cry aloud! Cry aloud! Whirl the Wheel, O my Father, O Satan, O Sun! Thou, the Saviour! Silence! Give me Thy Secret! Give me suck, Thou Phallus, Thou Sun! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Thou self-caused, self-determined, exalted, Most High!

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • High
  • Father
  • Spiritual

• If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Life
  • Interesting

• Somewhere under the hurricane a sea turtle rows through silence.

  

  Alicia Ostriker
  • Silence
  • Hurricane
  • Turtle