Randall Jarrell Quotes

Gertrude knew better than this, of course, but we all know better than we know better, or act as if we did.

Randall Jarrell

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Look your best - who said love is blind?

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Best
  • Love Is

• I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Pride
  • Wealth
  • Creation

• Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• 'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Star
  • My Life

• I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Different
  • Literature

• I was having a bad day, and my friend said, 'Go wash your hair.' I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Bad
  • Small
  • Friend

• I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding the vocal mechanisms. You learn how you support it and create characters through your voice so that became an obsession. So I went to Hollywood thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be one of the great voice-over artists.'

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • School

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• That's what I love about the Internet. Even if it's small-scale and you're just posting on a forum, that's an uncensored expression. That's what I love.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • You
  • Small

• If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Society
  • Stop

• With the... symbolic memory we spell out the future-not one but many futures, which we weigh one against another.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Future

• As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

  

  Larry Wall

• I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Women
  • Today
  • Free

• I don't want to buy something that has harmed anyone. This is my absolutely strongest belief, and I believe other people think this, too. Or if they don't now, they will.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • People
  • Believe

• I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • Community

• My faith in my filmmaking changed on the heels of 'Titan.' It allowed me to pursue things that I previously would have questioned.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Faith

• I think my style of game is aggressive.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Game
  • Style

• Early in my career, I wasn't good in the strike zone early. I was good in the strike zone late, which is not a good thing.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Good
  • Career

• It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Girl
  • Unfit

• Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

  

  John Muir
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Song

• Live long and prosper!

  

  Leonard Nimoy
  • Long
  • Live

• Gertrude knew better than this, of course, but we all know better than we know better, or act as if we did.

  

  Randall Jarrell