A. R. Ammons Quotes

The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.

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• Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Still
  • Surviving
  • Greeks

• One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Government
  • Taken

• I'm lucky to have a job where I can bring my kids to work. I love the days they come visit me on set. My goal is and has always been to do work that my kids can be proud of - to set a good example for them. As long as I can still spend quality time with my kids, I'll continue to do what I'm doing and hopefully make them proud.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Black
  • Years

• Our silence is deafening and deadly.

  

  James Brown
  • Silence

• Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Playing
  • Show
  • Adrenaline

• The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Action
  • Danger
  • Tax

• I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Character
  • Characters
  • I Feel

• One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Creation
  • Agencies
  • Departments

• A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Country
  • Engineering
  • Factory

• I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Simple
  • Reason
  • Drink

• There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • World
  • Attention
  • Pay

• There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • One Day
  • Stereotype
  • Misperception

• I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Heart
  • Period

• The majority of mankind think that they think; they acquiesce, and suppose that they argue; they flatter themselves that they are holding their own, when they have actually grown up to manhood, with scarcely a conviction that they can call their own. So it was, and so it ever shall be.

  

  E. W. Bullinger
  • Up

• It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • World
  • Good
  • Music

• Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and know a dozen ways to escape a chokehold or garrote wire. But kindness? I do not know how to defend against that.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Kindness
  • Blow
  • Block

• There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Block

• "The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Art
  • History
  • Philosophy

• The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.

  

  A. R. Ammons
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