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

• I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Never
  • Politics
  • Idea

• 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

• Every man and every woman is a star.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Star

• 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

• 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

• And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.

  

  Tim McIlrath Rise Against
  • Bands
  • Hurricane
  • Testosterone

• There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead.

  

  Eva Hart
  • Silence
  • Stars
  • Dark Night

• No man is born into the world whose workIs not born with him. There is always work,And tools to work withal, for those who will;And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • World
  • Work
  • Blessed

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

  

  Alicia Ostriker
  • Silence
  • Hurricane
  • Turtle