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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Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.
Wendy Kopp
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
Sam Harris
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
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom
You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
Edgar Allan Poe
We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.
Dave Brat
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
