Kathleen Raine Quotes
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?Kathleen Raine
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin -
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
Mahmoud Darwish -
I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
Sam Crawford -
But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
Valerie Plame -
I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
Wendy O. Williams
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky -
My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
J. G. Ballard -
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda -
When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
Adam Driver -
The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
Lady Gaga
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A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
Garrison Keillor -
I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.
Vicky McClure -
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
C. S. Lewis -
Nadine, honey is that you? Oh, Nadine, honey is that you? Seems like every time I see you Darling, you got something else to do
Chuck Berry -
I'm impatient.
Emma Roberts -
My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.
Paul Walker
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My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
Dan Hill -
My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
Bea Arthur -
My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
Grace Slick Starship -
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?
Kathleen Raine