Carl Sandburg Quotes

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

Carl Sandburg

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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Talking

• It takes three to make a child.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Child
  • Three
  • Takes

• I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • American
  • Years
  • Three

• I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Friendly

• I love talking about myself.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Talking

• When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Now
  • Talking
  • Numbers

• The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Man
  • Chinese

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Type

• I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Married
  • Three
  • Lady

• We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Lose
  • Two
  • Three

• I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Brother
  • Three
  • Obsession

• I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Remember
  • Three
  • Award

• I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Together
  • Gay
  • Three

• One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Three
  • Trade
  • Washington

• I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Events
  • Three

• I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Sexy
  • Try
  • Talking

• There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Feeling
  • Feel
  • Talking

• I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • House
  • Girl
  • Mom

• We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.

  

  Wong Kar-wai
  • Water
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• Still, there's that faint glimmer of hope we feel when we sense, in other people, the same kind of attentiveness to life that we take comfort in. Why else would anyone watch Haneke films or read Sebald? The material is grim, but it's redeemed by the quality of the attention.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Attention
  • Kind
  • Quality

• I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Work
  • Building
  • Apparatus

• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Harmony
  • Misery
  • Depth

• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talking
  • Three
  • Ring