Gerald Stern Quotes

Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.

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• Golf is played with the arms.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Golf
  • Played
  • Arms

• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Disappointing

• I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, 'What are you doing? Why'd you bring him?' It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • School
  • Why
  • Friends

• Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Today

• How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Man
  • Strange

• Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Style

• Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.

  

  Billy Graham
  • Die

• Alcun non può saper da chi sia amato,Quando felice in su la ruota siede:Però c'ha i veri e i finti amici a lato,Che mostran tutti una medesma fede.Se poi si cangia in tristo il lieto stato,Volta la turba adulatrice il piede;E quel che di cor ama riman forte,Ed ama il suo signor dopo la morte.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Fall
  • Deep

• I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Italian

• We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

  

  Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Time
  • Men
  • Emotional

• People love stories. They need stories.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • People

• I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

  

  Derek Luke

• I remember laughing so hard as a kid.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Remember

• The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.

  

  E. J. W. Barber
  • Question
  • Kind
  • Decision

• Each of us is born with an internal navigational system. The thinking of the world has a way of switching the system off, but we can always turn it on again through prayer, meditation and forgiveness. Doing this puts us back on track in our lives, making us wise, convicted and powerful.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Powerful

• The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.

  

  Brian Cox
  • World
  • Today
  • Lost

• With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Influence
  • Blood
  • Powers

• Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.

  

  Gerald Stern
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Persons