Randall Jarrell Quotes
The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything-I am being sympathetic, not satiric-for the very best reasons.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
-
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
-
I don't know the right way to retire.
-
I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
-
I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
-
'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
-
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
-
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
-
I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
-
If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
-
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
-
I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
-
I love researching, I love interviewing.
-
I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
-
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
-
As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
-
The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
-
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
-
Bernie Sanders even reminded me of the way I felt at parties over the years. You go to a party, you don't know anybody, you sort of wander around. You hold a drink in your hand, you don't know what to do. This poor guy Bernie, he was at a loss with this group of people he didn't know.
-
I believe that if each one of us have successful solo careers, it can only help the group's growth. It will allow the fans to see individual talent and make them appreciate us more. After all, we are in this for the long run and have every intention of returning with another album as Aventura.
-
'All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.'
-
I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.
-
I know one day I'll be considered too old. I think 40-year-old women actually look more healthy and fit than some girls in their 20s. I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years.
-
The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything-I am being sympathetic, not satiric-for the very best reasons.
