Randall Jarrell Quotes
We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)
Randall Jarrell
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
T. Boone Pickens
One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.
Barry Humphries
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
Nancy Kress
I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
Gary Lineker
I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
The scouting community always looked at those guys as European players, until now. That may change.
Chris Wallace
The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.
Rachel Holmes
We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.
Brandi Chastain
There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
Thich Nhat Hanh
We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)
Randall Jarrell