Carolyn Forche Quotes

One can live without having survived

Carolyn Forche

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• Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Censorship
  • Survived

• We may have survived a little bit if we were in Conference USA with this team, but surviving in the Big East is another story. You have to grow up in a hurry. We are just not physically talented with out inexperience and youth.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Survived
  • Inexperience
  • Conference USA

• I have no good theories about why Randal survived. I find it no less than a miracle given what I've learned about the environment he was in for over 40 hours.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Theories
  • Survived
  • Randal

• Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Survived
  • Discouragement

• Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Facts
  • Faces
  • Shots

• People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • People
  • Respect
  • Survived

• We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Life is
  • Believing
  • Survived

• Vinyl survived, we managed not to kill it. Knowing that you’ve taken part in this fight... You can’t imagine the happiness it brings. Every time I see a kid going out of the store with a vinyl record under the arms, my heart beats faster. Music should only be this. An intense emotion.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Heart
  • Fight
  • Emotion

• She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.

  

  Anne Cameron
  • Live
  • Survived
  • Endured

• I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.

  

  Cecil Williams
  • Family
  • Community
  • Poor

• We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In the early 1980s I opened a store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within the year, the Texas economy was in total disarray. We were facing Chapter 11, and if not for the California store, we might not have survived.

  

  George Zimmer
  • Economy
  • Store
  • Survived

• I felt guilty because I survived.

  

  Edgar Hilsenrath
  • Guilty
  • Survived

• Alex Robichek had survived their Italian exile; that Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi were safe in Sacramento.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Italian
  • Safe
  • Survived

• Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

  

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
  • Science
  • Birth
  • Discovery

• When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains was smoking with rubbish dumps. While exploring the dumps, I made friends with people living and working there and saw how they survived through recycling the rubbish.

  

  Michael Foreman
  • Friends
  • Working
  • Mountains

• People ask how I’ve survived so long. Well, I was in the Blitz and there was stoicism in adversity. And humour. Humour has sustained me.

  

  Nicholas Parsons
  • Long
  • Humour
  • Survived

• I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

  

  Michael Rooker
  • Survived
  • Apocalypse

• What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Choose
  • Strive
  • Songwriting

• I take as much time as I need. I want to be fresh and smelling good.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fresh

• And she Eleanor Roosevelt loves being a star. And she loves being a teacher and a leader and a mentor and a big friend. Also, she's tall. She's one of the tallest girls in the school. And she's an athlete. And she writes many years later, at the end of her life, she writes that the happiest day, the happiest single day of her life was the day that she made the first team at field hockey. And I have to say, as a biographer, that's the most important fact.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Friend
  • Teacher
  • Leader

• Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.

  

  Edward Gardner
  • Opera
  • Sings
  • Bleeding

• We're really looking at an individual evolutionary event, and this is spectacular.

  

  Bob Waterston
  • Spectacular
  • Revolutionary events

• One can live without having survived

  

  Carolyn Forche
  • Survived