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
  • Safety

• 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
  • Position
  • Roles
  • Queen

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

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Kid
  • Disney
  • Been

• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• 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

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• 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

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• 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
  • Important
  • Start

• God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I think people do want to cut through the noise, and they do want straight shooters, and they want you to call people out on the facts when the facts are the facts.

  

  David Muir
  • People

• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Intelligence

• I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.

  

  Valerie June
  • Different
  • Home
  • American

• 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