Randall Jarrell Quotes

...habits are happiness of a sort...

Randall Jarrell

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• When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Funny

• Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Nature
  • Nice
  • Better

• After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Stop
  • Health
  • Focus

• I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.

  

  Rain
  • Feeling
  • Day
  • Rainy

• And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Moving
  • Legacy
  • Saying

• It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Important
  • Power
  • Race

• No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Real
  • Enjoy
  • Walking

• I always do something that I've never done before.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Done
  • Always
  • Never

• I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.'

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Day
  • Cool
  • End

• On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Me
  • College
  • Doing

• What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Important
  • More
  • Tomorrow

• When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

  

  Carla Bley
  • People
  • Play
  • Behind

• I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Live
  • Myself

• Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your career. You might have to look for more than one passion. Some passions may afford a career and some may not.

  

  Larry Smith
  • May
  • Career
  • Passion

• I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Me
  • Child
  • Moment

• Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Government
  • Percent

• I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Love
  • Think
  • Tears

• Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Real
  • Obstacles
  • Imaginary

• If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.

  

  Edward Thomas
  • Chance
  • Daughter
  • Rose

• Questlove is an artist who I respect because he constantly shifts within the idiom, challenging perceptions of hip-hop and black American culture.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• I do know that I love placing my stories in Michigan because, if you collect all the ideas, it turns the whole state into one kaleidoscopic, frightening place. Michigan as house of horrors.

  

  Josh Malerman
  • Stories
  • Michigan
  • Placing

• I'm pretty consistently fit because I think it's an important part of my work, but I will ramp it up just because I have been enjoying myself a little bit too much.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• Toddlers are couthless. Lord. They are so couth-deficient. They'll tell you, 'Those shoes look like my nightmares' without a second thought because your feelings don't matter to them.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Shoes

• ...habits are happiness of a sort...

  

  Randall Jarrell