Randall Jarrell Quotes

I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness - that the darkness flung me -Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Randall Jarrell

• Pain
• Wisdom
• Ignorance

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• I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Hope
  • Never
  • Animals

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Important
  • Art

• It is always the unreadable that occurs.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Always
  • Occurs
  • Unreadable

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Truth Is

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Beauty
  • Wealth
  • Intellectual

• I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Think
  • Day
  • Movies

• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wife

• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Down

• Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • House
  • Team
  • Best

• It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Media
  • News

• Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Belief
  • Illusion
  • Illusions

• I think quotes are very dangerous things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Everything

• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Believe
  • May
  • Pain

• I wear men's cologne - it gets the fellas!

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Men

• But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • High
  • Society
  • Alone

• Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

  

  Michel Faber
  • Events
  • Newspapers
  • Meaningless

• I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • Work
  • Live

• I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness - that the darkness flung me -Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Pain
  • Wisdom
  • Ignorance