Rita Dove Quotes

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

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• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Running
  • Day
  • First

• My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Judgment
  • Errors
  • Failures

• I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Good Things

• In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Football

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • You
  • Living
  • Realize

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Mainstream
  • Then

• Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Looks

• Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • You
  • Strength
  • Muscles

• The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Life
  • Book
  • My Life

• I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Body
  • Run
  • Legislative

• Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Opportunity

• A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Song
  • Comforting

• There's no bread, let 'em eat cakeThere's no end to what they'll takeFlaunt the fruits of noble birthWash the salt into the earth - Bastille Day (1975)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Earth

• The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength. He scarcely uses his own strength in the greatest emergency. Then what does he use? Simply the strength of his antagonist. The force of the enemy is the only means by which that enemy is overcome.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Attention
  • Mean
  • Enemy

• The real aim of social and industrial organization ought to be the production of strong, healthy men and women, capable of playing and working with the least pain and the greatest joy.

  

  Charles A. Beard
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Friends

• A picador is the guy in a bullfight who helps make sure the matador doesn't get killed by distracting the bull. That's what TV writing is. You're just distracting the bull long enough to stick around for the next set of commercials.

  

  Christopher Lloyd
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Guy

• My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Observation

• It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

  

  Rita Dove
  • Writing
  • Around
  • Scheduling