Kathleen Raine Quotes

As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the reality f myth, I chose myth...Myth is the truth of fact, not fact the truth of myth.

Kathleen Raine

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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Design
  • New
  • Create

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Dress

• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Story
  • Indian

• People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

  

  Aristotle Onassis
  • Life
  • Up

• There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Spiritual

• I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • School
  • Learning
  • Son

• I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • Gold

• It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.

  

  Betty White
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• If we are busy in a hundred good things - even great things, gospel things, glorious things - but don't sit at the feet of Jesus, we are busy in the wrong ways.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Good
  • Great
  • Jesus

• Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • Safety

• I was thrilled as a kid to point out my sister as she danced and sang on the stage, and she was pretty good artistically. She was a great inspiration to me. She was the one who sort of led me into show business.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • Business
  • Inspiration
  • Sister

• The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India.

  

  Phil Gramm

• Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.

  

  James O'Shaughnessy
  • Great
  • Bad

• You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Vulnerable
  • Don't Know
  • Grounded

• How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Independent

• Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love.

  

  Gary Hallinan
  • Children
  • Passionate
  • Deliberate

• A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

  

  Wes Bentley
  • Reality
  • Enough
  • Reflection

• As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the reality f myth, I chose myth...Myth is the truth of fact, not fact the truth of myth.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Children
  • Reality
  • Belief