Reynolds Price Quotes

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

Reynolds Price

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• I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Reputation
  • Stingy

• People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Truth
  • Wonder

• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I sometimes wonder if I pushed myself to get out there and meet people I'd get more work.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Silly

• I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • World
  • Music
  • Interesting

• From wonder into wonder existence opens.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wonder
  • Existence
  • Opens

• What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Remember
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Root

• You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Wonder

• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Island

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Live
  • Art
  • Book

• Well, I probably won't get too good grades even without you: I had an argument (completely unrelated – not even pertaining to OS's) with the person here at the university that teaches OS design. I wonder when I'll learn :)

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Good
  • Wonder
  • Design

• I walk in a cloud of wonder; I am glad.I mingle among the crowds; my heart is pounding;You do not guess the adventure I have had! . . .Yet you, too, all have had your dark adventures,Your sudden adventures, or strange, or sweet . . .My peril goes out from me, is blown among you.We loiter, dreaming together, along the street.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Dark

• I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Taken

• There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • World
  • Simple
  • Wonder

• You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Wonder

• You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Up
  • Music
  • Today

• People would be amazed by the ordinary life William and I live. I do my own shopping. Sometimes, when I come away from the meat counter in my local supermarket, I worry someone will snap me with their phone. But I am determined to have a relatively normal life, and if I am lucky enough to have children, they can have one, too.

  

  Prince Harry
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Eyes never see, Ears never hear, when you are emotional

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Eyes
  • Emotional
  • Ears

• No one looks stupid when they're having fun.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Fun
  • Stupid

• Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

  

  Reynolds Price
  • Wonder
  • Cruelty
  • Stingy