Randall Jarrell Quotes
What to leave out is the first thing the artist has to decide; a painter who 'held the mirror up to nature' would spend his life on the leaves of one landscape. The work of art’s fluctuating and idiosyncratic threshold of attention-the great things disregarded, the small things seized and dwelt on-is as much of a signature as anything in it.
Randall Jarrell
Quotes to Explore
If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
Namie Amuro
A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
Randi Weingarten
Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
Carlene Carter
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 still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
Garth Brooks
Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
M. Stanton Evans
I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
Bam Margera
I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.
Michel Foucault
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
Ursula Andress
We human beings are what we have been for millions of years - colossally greedy, envious, aggressive, jealous, anxious and despairing, with occasional flashes of joy and affection. We are a strange mixture of hate, fear and gentleness; we are both violence and peace.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
What to leave out is the first thing the artist has to decide; a painter who 'held the mirror up to nature' would spend his life on the leaves of one landscape. The work of art’s fluctuating and idiosyncratic threshold of attention-the great things disregarded, the small things seized and dwelt on-is as much of a signature as anything in it.
Randall Jarrell
