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

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • School
  • Teaching
  • Arts

• 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

• It's funny, one of my most solid carpet moments happened in the very beginning, before I started thinking that I needed all these other people to do my hair and makeup, and pick out my clothes. I wore a cheetah sweater and a red hat, and it's one of my favorite looks, even still.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Funny

• 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
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  • 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

• If you have a traditional view of economics, you're probably thinking of Ben Bernanke making Fed policy, or the guys creating financial derivatives at Goldman Sachs.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Thinking
  • Financial

• 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

• I'd just like to think that there's some kind of underworld where whoever's been lost at sea is there... I dunno, there probably isn't, but I'd like to believe there is.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Lost

• Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don't know why they take themselves so seriously.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It's about everything in moderation.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Moon
  • Blue

• 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