Randall Jarrell Quotes
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.Randall Jarrell
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
Kat Graham -
Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
I hate competition.
Marat Safin -
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
Kabir Bedi -
I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.
Tammy Duckworth -
I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
Edan Lepucki
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
Hans Rosling -
Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.
Walter Washington -
There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.
Usain Bolt -
I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
Vijay Mallya -
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
Madeleine L'Engle -
When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
Fionnula Flanagan
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
Vince Flynn -
When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.
Orlando Bloom -
I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.
T. J. Miller -
Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
Gary Herbert -
We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
L. Neil Smith -
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
Nancy Gibbs
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We kiss and hug our kids a lot! And even now when our son lives 3,000 miles away, we talk every day, sometimes several times.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
Jaime Lerner -
I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,” Claire said. “As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn’t vote him to be in charge.
Rachel Caine -
Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.
William Goldman -
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.
Randall Jarrell