Randall Jarrell Quotes

Marx said that he had stood Hegel on his head; often Mr. Horace Gregory has simply stood Pollyana on her head.

Randall Jarrell

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• I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fashion

• Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Know
  • Looking

• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Book
  • Think

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Always
  • See
  • Luxury

• Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • Die
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Support
  • Single
  • Woman

• There are no Dave Marrs anymore.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Anymore
  • Dave

• It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Want
  • Easy

• I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • You
  • Dark
  • Edgy

• My parents were in high school when I was born. My mom was 16, my dad was 17. They were kids, at the very beginning of coming into their own and finding themselves.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Day

• I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Life
  • Different
  • Earth

• I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Think
  • Action
  • Movies

• I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Real
  • Chance

• I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People

• If children have interests then education happens.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Children
  • Education

• Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

  

  Kevin Powers
  • Taken
  • Spiritual
  • Risk

• I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Like

• Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Years
  • Sentences

• The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Life
  • May
  • Words

• Marx said that he had stood Hegel on his head; often Mr. Horace Gregory has simply stood Pollyana on her head.

  

  Randall Jarrell