Carolyn Kizer Quotes
A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.
Quotes to Explore
-
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
-
Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
-
To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
-
I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
-
Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.
-
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.
-
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
-
That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.
-
Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.
-
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
-
Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'
-
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
-
I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.
-
For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
-
I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.
-
A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
-
Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
-
On one level, I realize the basic appeal of my character is her body. But the totality of the Conan film is really much more than that. When I read the script, I thought it was just a matter of sword fighting. But when I read the books, I found they were filled with sorcery, and I liked that very much. I've always loved fairy tales, and I've always believed that just around the corner, magic truly does exist, human magic.
-
When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.
-
Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
-
A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.
