Carolyn Kizer Quotes

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

Carolyn Kizer

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• I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Like
  • Process
  • Ups And Downs

• My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Think
  • Father

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Die
  • Car

• I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Day
  • December

• Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Sad

• I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Long
  • Home
  • Idea

• This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Congress
  • Solution
  • First Step

• God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • God
  • Moral

• The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Time
  • Why
  • Future

• A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • World
  • Empty
  • Conquer

• Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Should
  • Persons
  • Inspire

• The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Government
  • Opposition
  • Speculation

• If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Trying
  • Lost
  • Moving

• There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Hate
  • Journey
  • Faults

• Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and ideas, and you reason your way forward to a story that pulls them together. With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Together

• Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves.

  

  Sappho
  • Army
  • Faces
  • Ships

• How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Reason
  • Accident
  • Fitting

• Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

  

  Carolyn Kizer
  • Faces
  • Concerned
  • Mirrors