Carol Bly Quotes

Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'

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• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kids
  • See
  • Said

• I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Political
  • Goal
  • Writer

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Hunger
  • Idiot

• I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nonsense

• I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Love
  • Man
  • Leading

• When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Nature
  • You
  • Child

• The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Mother

• I wanted to really ingrain myself in the culture and the people. And I apologize about having an allergy to dairy products that gives me some irritable bowels, but other than that, I mean, I've embraced just about everything else Wisconsin - especially when it comes to sports, but also the people and the interactions with our fans.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Culture
  • Myself

• In back of the outward calm … a small terrified voice cries out: 'I need it. I have to have it or ...' The end of the sentence is lost in chaos. The need is so strong that an illusion is created that it must be fulfilled, or the very existence of the self is threatened.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Strong
  • Small
  • Lost

• My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Father
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• Fashion is a huge part of music and of who you are. It really sets the mood for a show, and it's fun to play around with it. You can get really creative in photo shoots as well. You know, just having fun with it.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Death
  • Die

• I couldn't vote to confirm any candidate who supports executive amnesty. The attorney general is a top law enforcement officer in this country - the senior person - and anyone who occupies that office must have fidelity to the laws of the United States duly passed, and to the Constitution of the United States.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Country
  • Law
  • Senior

• 'Moldova: Yes or No?' That's a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say 'Yes, you're in Moldova.' I'm so excited. People need that. That's the whole point. The whole reason you buy a $500 phone is to see if you are... in Moldova. Or not.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • People
  • Great

• This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.

  

  Marjorie Holmes
  • Thinking
  • Prayer
  • Inescapable

• To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Men
  • Littles

• Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Live
  • Breath

• Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'

  

  Carol Bly
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Enough