Arda Collins Quotes

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

Arda Collins

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• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Trump

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Kind
  • Pleasant
  • Embarrassed

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Find
  • Lazy
  • Theater

• Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Want

• Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Also

• From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Character
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Commitment
  • Will
  • Confident

• In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Future
  • Past
  • Prepare

• I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• 'Miracles, signs, wonders, deliverance and healing cannot be exchanged with money.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Money
  • Healing

• ...People that don’t have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don’t want to analyze... those aren’t the people I romanticize about dressing.

  

  Marc Jacobs
  • People
  • Psychology

• 'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • World
  • Today

• I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • American

• I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • British
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Foreigners

• I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

  

  John Michael Higgins
  • Friends
  • Army

• A wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Children
  • Happy

• Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Air
  • Fire

• Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

  

  Arda Collins
  • Life
  • Important
  • Poetry Is