Charles Reznikoff Quotes

Not the five feet of water to your chin but the inch above the tip of your nose.

Charles Reznikoff

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• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Music
  • Water
  • Winter

• I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Water

• I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Future
  • Never
  • Feet

• I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Water
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Home
  • Water
  • Garden

• I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Good
  • Water
  • Yoga

• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Man
  • Black
  • Water

• I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Discipline
  • Feet

• Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Culture
  • Giving
  • Water

• In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Hands
  • Feet
  • March

• I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Feet

• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Motivational

• I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Water

• I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Live
  • Country
  • City

• I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Kind
  • Water
  • Pool

• I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Happy
  • Water
  • Healthy

• I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Time
  • Better
  • Feet

• My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Water
  • Vegan
  • Ginger

• In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • May
  • Police
  • Year

• Something happened inside me. A huge and uncontrollable wave ran through me and crashed on the shore that was my heart.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • My Heart
  • Crashed
  • Inside Me

• I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • School
  • Parents
  • Nice

• Not the five feet of water to your chin but the inch above the tip of your nose.

  

  Charles Reznikoff
  • Water
  • Feet
  • Nose