Cate Marvin Quotes

I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have - quite literally - never been made before.

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• I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Theatre

• Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Guy

• My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Parents
  • Movement
  • Students

• Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Power

• I love the most the students with troubled lives.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Love
  • Students
  • Troubled

• Now, the smoke fills the airIn this honky-tonk bar.And I'm thinking 'bout where I'd rather be.But I burned all my bridges;I sank all my ships.And I'm stranded at the edge of the sea.

  

  James Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Sea

• Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

  

  Win Butler
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Experience

• As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

  

  David Bohm
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Relationship

• I don't know... it's just too much fun to wonder about what life would be without gravity. I just started thinking about outer space more as an adult than I probably ever did as a kid. That was also inspiring, the concept of being stuck to the earth.

  

  Dave Pirner
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Die

• You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

  

  Jamie Parker
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Character

• Thinking of Melville, thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Thinking
  • America

• Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Actresses

• I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Thinking
  • History
  • Past

• I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Thinking
  • Search
  • Birth

• Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mother
  • Birth
  • Educated

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

  

  W. L. George
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Enemies

• Richard Branson is probably the most visible of the private commercial space guys, and what is venture, Virgin Galactic is about is sub orbital flight. That is, you'll see a spacecraft that looks more or less like an airplane and it will fly into space, but only spend about 15 minutes. It'll go up in a parabolic arc and then fall back down, and so the customers on that flight will only get about five minutes of weightlessness. They'll get to glimpse the horizon of the Earth, take a look at it before just before they start coming back down into the atmosphere.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Space

• The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Truth
  • Faces

• I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have - quite literally - never been made before.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Thinking
  • Teaching
  • Students