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

• I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Up
  • Never
  • Now

• 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

• If there are any who believe that immigrants to this country, most of whom have already become British citizens, could be forcibly deported because they are coloured people...then that I must repudiate, absolutely and completely.

  

  Edward Heath
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Every man and every woman is a star.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Star

• Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Existence
  • Eternal
  • Illusory

• 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

• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • May
  • Power
  • Silence

• Grave silence is far more powerful than the same old voices yapping away.

  

  Carolyn Chute
  • Powerful
  • Silence

• Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Hurt
  • Silence

• Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

  

  James D. Watson
  • People

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

  

  Alicia Ostriker
  • Silence
  • Hurricane
  • Turtle