Randall Jarrell Quotes
Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.Randall Jarrell
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
I've never been a partier.
Victoria Justice -
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking -
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
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
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
Natalia Makarova -
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
Aaron Ashmore -
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Imelda Marcos -
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
Adam Draper -
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
Talulah Riley -
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn -
The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
Rahm Emanuel -
Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
Park Chan-wook -
The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women's empowerment.
Madchen Amick -
Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
Kamisese Mara
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Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
John Barth -
Saw my reflection, covered in glass. How It reminds me of you.
Pete Yorn -
People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.
Douglas Rushkoff -
Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.
Alex Kingston -
Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.
Randall Jarrell