Randall Jarrell Quotes
Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
Randall Jarrell
Quotes to Explore
Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
Verne Troyer
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
Walter Jon Williams
I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
Mal Peet
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
Gary Goetzman
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit - the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.
Rabindranath Tagore
All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.
Jack Kirby
To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas - oh, you're on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It's about the project and not the medium on which it's delivered. It's the story you tell, period.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
Randall Jarrell
