Charles Reznikoff Quotes

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies a girder, still itself among the rubbish

Charles Reznikoff

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• When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Up
  • Years
  • Look

• The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Reality
  • Aging

• It's fear that makes an act courageous.

  

  Denise Hunter
  • Fear
  • Act
  • Courageous

• I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.

  

  Elizabeth Rogers
  • Life
  • Moving
  • I Think

• I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

  

  Joy Fielding
  • Happy
  • Being Me

• Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

  

  Paul Shaffer
  • Writing
  • Looking
  • Gratification

• I was always a junk food person, still am.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Persons
  • Junk

• If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

  

  Rebecca Eaton
  • Drama
  • Television
  • Standing

• I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.

  

  Fleur East
  • White
  • Bread
  • Rubbish

• 'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Woman
  • Gossip
  • Falling

• My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Musician

• I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Story
  • Write
  • Rubbish

• A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Wall
  • Ignore

• It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Knowledge
  • Ambition
  • Rubbish

• Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

  

  Allen Carr
  • Window
  • Alarm
  • Brick

• I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Real
  • Character
  • Interesting

• The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it's never really too late to begin.

  

  David Bach
  • Wealth
  • Stills
  • Easier

• Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies a girder, still itself among the rubbish

  

  Charles Reznikoff
  • Rubbish
  • Brick
  • Plaster