Carl Sandburg Quotes

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

Carl Sandburg

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• Snobbery just inhibits you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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  • Just
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• I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Feel

• I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Training
  • Hard

• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Down

• It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Family
  • Decisions

• Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Business
  • Our
  • Smallest

• I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Kid
  • Los Angeles

• When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • She
  • Character
  • Language

• Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Best
  • Many
  • Venture

• What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Love
  • Religion
  • For Her

• One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Early

• I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Rest

• It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Country
  • Together

• I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

  

  Raekwon
  • Problem
  • Successful
  • Cats

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Science
  • Like
  • Fiction

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • God
  • Obligation
  • Pump

• I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Different
  • Theories
  • Exaggeration

• If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.

  

  Nico Tortorella
  • Doing
  • Twenties
  • Objectified

• People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • People
  • See
  • Right

• I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Me
  • Chicago
  • Hell