Randall Jarrell Quotes

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Care

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Home
  • Born

• I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Air
  • Down
  • Windows

• I am very much a Republican.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Republican

• We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Business
  • Never
  • Wall

• Care and pity are two different things.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Different
  • Care
  • Two

• Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • End
  • Research
  • Determination

• If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Work
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • School
  • Free
  • Small

• I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Hard
  • Profound
  • Novel

• Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Theatre

• There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Peace
  • Always
  • Certain

• If people love 'Gremlins' so much and 'Clueless,' 'Yoga Hosers' is not that weird. It is very weird, but compared to that stuff, it's not that different.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Different
  • Weird

• I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stuff, but I'm not good if people aren't super psyched - if they're not like me.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • Country

• Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic."

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pride
  • Lust
  • Self-Esteem

• A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Circumstances
  • Little

• I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

  

  Leon Krier
  • True
  • Architecture

• Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Flower
  • Grows
  • Walks

• Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

  

  Randall Jarrell