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

• 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 always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

  

  Emma Watson
  • Good

• I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Cutting
  • Drawing

• I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Life
  • Game
  • College

• About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day; for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die.

  

  Plutarch
  • Life
  • Night
  • Die

• Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them. Obviously, because it is more salient, you know? We might like going to the movies, and of course we like music too, but when the eyes don't work then the ears pick up slack. Music is all the sweeter at that point.

  

  William Fitzsimmons
  • People
  • Important
  • Parent

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

  

  Arda Collins
  • Life
  • Important
  • Poetry Is