Witter Bynner Quotes

I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them.

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• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Heaven
  • Name
  • Grandmother

• Yoga is a life-saver.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Life
  • Yoga

• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Existence
  • Lives
  • Economics

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • America
  • Land

• Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Brainy

• One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • Live
  • Man

• The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

  

  Alberto Manguel

• They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, 'Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3.' … WELL, THEN IT'S MINUS 3, ASSHOLE! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect!

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Why
  • Today

• Truly, I am not afraid of one man in this whole UFC Octagon roster. I truly don't care. What's the worst thing that's going to happen to me? I lose. I get knocked out?

  

  Demetrious Johnson

• My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Black
  • Support

• A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Up

• How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• I came out to my family when I was 13. I was a very young kid, a vulnerable kid.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Family

• I help design my own tennis clothes.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Help
  • Design
  • Tennis

• I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Team
  • Player
  • Beach

• If people are determined to be outraged, they will be outraged.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • People

• I'm not sensitive about my lisp, but a lot of people are, and it's not the type of trait people should mock.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • People
  • Should
  • Type

• The cold was an enemy, yet it kept the tribes strong. The old did not suffer for long in such bitter winters. The weakling children perished quickly. His son would not be one of those.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Strong
  • Enemy
  • Cold

• A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Future
  • Society
  • Past

• One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • River

• I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them.

  

  Witter Bynner
  • Memories
  • Misers