Randall Jarrell Quotes

Malraux writes in a language in which there is no way to say 'perhaps' or 'I don't know,' so that after a while we grow accustomed to saying it for him.

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• To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Time
  • World
  • Fun

• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• 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.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Opinion

• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  

  Maimonides
  • Same
  • Liar
  • Pen

• Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Will
  • Economic
  • Policy

• Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Sweet

• At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • First
  • Root
  • Then

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Period
  • Gun
  • Background

• Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Trust
  • Commitment

• But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fool

• The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

  

  Maria Montessori
  • Good
  • Children
  • Evil

• That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • People
  • Time

• As quoted in Zirkle, Conway (1935), The beginnings of plant hybridization p. 105

  

  Cotton Mather
  • Plant

• Contrasting styles is always the most fun to watch

  

  Richard Krajicek
  • Style
  • Watches

• I am a mother first, then a CEO and then a wife.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Mother
  • Wife

• They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Simple
  • Care
  • Problems

• I do believe that in America there needs to be a primary language and that English should be that language, it's not a radical position, it's a position that's held by countless people who are Latino.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• Malraux writes in a language in which there is no way to say 'perhaps' or 'I don't know,' so that after a while we grow accustomed to saying it for him.

  

  Randall Jarrell