Carolyn Forche Quotes

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

Carolyn Forche

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• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Double

• My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Age
  • Mom
  • Chance

• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Fear
  • Know
  • More

• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • United States
  • Plans
  • Almost

• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Begin

• There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • You
  • Something
  • Obvious

• He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Style
  • Teacher
  • Destroy

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Work
  • Character
  • Comedy

• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Man

• The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Journalism

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Country
  • Growing

• It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Privacy

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • She
  • Thoughts

• And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit

• At the training camp, I was told that doors always open for a man wearing a hard hat and carrying a clipboard.

  

  John Twelve Hawks
  • Training

• Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Soul
  • Effort
  • Refinement

• I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Soul
  • Sacrificed
  • Spared

• The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Family
  • Science

• Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

  

  Carolyn Forche
  • Soul
  • Singing
  • Voice