Carl Sandburg Quotes
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Quotes to Explore
-
All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
-
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
-
Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
-
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
-
We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
-
I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
-
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
-
Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
-
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
-
I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
-
I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.
-
I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.
-
I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
-
Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
-
I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was abroad. I came in not knowing a word of Hindi in 7th grade and learned Hindi and passed the exam in 10th. I think I was north of 50 percent, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.
-
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
-
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
-
The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
-
As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
-
I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
-
This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
-
When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'
-
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.
-
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
