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 don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Travel

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

  

  Sally Struthers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Young

• We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Think
  • Racial

• Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • End
  • Research
  • Determination

• We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Power
  • Science

• 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
  • History
  • College
  • Learning

• 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
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Know

• 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
  • Like
  • Weird
  • Socks

• 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
  • Up
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• 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
  • America
  • Free
  • Path

• The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Good
  • Real

• The future is always a dystopia in movies.

  

  Alex Cox
  • Future

• You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Time
  • Stupid

• We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

  

  Neil LaBute

• Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.

  

  Chief Seattle
  • People
  • God

• It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.

  

  David Strathairn
  • Music

• I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
  • Good
  • Career
  • Team

• To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • God
  • Ego

• I was at the birth of my two girls.

  

  Clive Owen

• I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.

  

  Charlyne Yi
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Painting

• The rest of the band Soundgarden thought it was silly of the press to concentrate on the beefcake when I was writing songs, singing, and playing guitar for the band. Even now, some people will stick a paragraph about my hair in the body of a review.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Band

• 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
  • Writing
  • Language
  • Precise