Randall Jarrell Quotes

How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, 'Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t' - is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.

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• There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Picture
  • Thought
  • End

• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • You
  • Run
  • Safe

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Political
  • Reality
  • Color

• I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Hell
  • Coat
  • Fur

• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Car

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Development
  • Africa

• I have always liked a challenge.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Always
  • Challenge
  • Liked

• The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Powerful
  • Personality

• I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • May
  • Think
  • Down

• If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Values
  • Act
  • Be Prepared

• Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Yourself

• Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Chance
  • Prison

• Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

  

  Anthony Holden
  • Up
  • Done
  • Prince

• At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Grateful

• Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.

  

  David Horsey
  • Women
  • Peace
  • Justice

• I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

  

  Liz Phair
  • People
  • Song
  • Chaos

• How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, 'Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t' - is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Interesting