Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Good
  • Great
  • Ethics

• I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Family
  • Appreciate

• My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Free
  • Action

• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Act
  • Curiosity
  • Analysis

• Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Look
  • Choice

• As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Up
  • Different
  • Pretty

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Hope
  • Attention

• You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Hate
  • Hand
  • Stand

• I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Hope
  • House
  • Die

• In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • True
  • Nature
  • Learning

• It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Sometimes

• I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.

  

  Halima Aden
  • American
  • Culture
  • Things

• I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Start

• We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • Life
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• People aren't born racist.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • People

• I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of wind Depth of sea Stability of earth Firmness of rock.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Today
  • Earth
  • Light

• If you're pretty, you want to be ugly. If you're loud, you want to play quiet. You always want to challenge people's expectations.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Challenge

• When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Pretty
  • Worry
  • Ugly

• Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Rock
  • Ugly