Raymond Carver Quotes
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
Raymond Carver
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I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because 'Wicked' and 'Rent' and 'Glee,' each one was a young audience, so it's a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they'll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I'm 80 and in Vegas!
Idina Menzel
I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.
Taylor Kinney
If you get behind in first grade, then you're behind every grade from then on.
Blake Griffin
I love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up.
Mary Steenburgen
Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.
Enrique Pena Nieto
So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.
Deborah Norville
I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.
Kawhi Leonard
What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.
Banana Yoshimoto
Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day.
Simon Wiesenthal
I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
Nathaniel Philbrick
We know what the writing on the wall is, ... We need to make sure we continue to pay down the debt. That's been one of our objectives all the way along the line. So it's not a retreat at all.
Dennis Hastert
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
Raymond Carver
