Randall Jarrell Quotes

Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

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• My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • People
  • Parents
  • Team

• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Values
  • Act
  • Attack

• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
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• I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Kid
  • Disney
  • Been

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

  

  Ed Asner
  • May
  • Character
  • Truth

• I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Party

• I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • More
  • Conscious
  • Rapper

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• Try not to eat after 7 P.M. Try to stay away from heavy food in the night, like hamburgers and chicken nuggets. Eat that stuff in the morning or early afternoon.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Food
  • Morning

• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Mind
  • Playing

• We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure
  • Equal

• It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • People
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  • Start

• Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the mind of a kid. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate video game player. The ultimate snack maker.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Game

• When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• Language transcends us and yet, we speak.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Great
  • Art
  • American

• A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

  

  Jeff Hawkins
  • American
  • America
  • Success

• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Value
  • Knows

• I'm really grateful to my fans - to all the people who support me.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Support
  • Grateful

• Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • American
  • Age