Kay Boyle Quotes

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

Kay Boyle

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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Equal

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Career
  • Doors
  • View

• I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • School
  • Medical
  • Biology

• Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Great
  • Think
  • Humble

• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Love
  • Person
  • Poet

• Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Music
  • Important

• The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Power
  • Education

• I saw a feeding about a lion for plants, I saw leaves of luxuriant growth. I saw a branch with equal blossoms. Did I not see a prince? most liberal his customs, I saw the ruler of Cathraeth beyond the plains Be my oak the gleaming spirit of the Cymry.

  

  Taliesin
  • Growth
  • Prince
  • Lion

• The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World

• Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate. I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.

  

  Libba Bray
  • Up
  • Beginning
  • Fate

• You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

  

  Donna Mills

• I've got to literally write my own ticket.

  

  Kay Cannon

• Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Experience
  • Stress

• Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Sexy

• You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

  

  Eric Davis
  • People
  • Feeling

• Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Book
  • Laugh
  • Read

• I am transgender, so 'he' is not appropriate and 'she' is problematic. I haven't been one to wage war with society to force people to address me a certain way. I let people make that decision for themselves. I don't identify as a man, so 'he' is silly in a way. Being called 'she' as a trans person, trans in the sense that I'm trans, is to be honoured in an aspect of yourself.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Men
  • War

• Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

  

  Christopher West
  • Men
  • Women
  • Expression

• The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Book

• The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

  

  Kay Boyle
  • Decision
  • Acceptance
  • Intellectual