Gerald Stern Quotes

I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

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• I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Know
  • Day
  • Everyday

• To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Think
  • Model
  • Better

• I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Think
  • Confidence

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Looks
  • Dreams
  • Inside

• When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Power
  • Back
  • Georgia

• I think a lot of what the iPad app is going to be used for is just reading the best content on Quora. It really helps the whole system run because people who are writing answers can get this very wide distribution to a large audience of readers.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Life
  • Sometimes

• If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Truth

• Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Language
  • Weird
  • Belief

• When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

  

  Kanye West
  • Water
  • Products
  • Shirts

• A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Letters
  • Depends
  • Melody

• Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Satan

• Keep it real by being straight forward. Don't pull no punches on people. It's better to tell somebody than just lollygag around, letting them think they're living their life the right way. Because some people don't know what the hell they're doing, they don't know if they're living the right way or making the right decisions. Some people don't know that.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • Motherhood

• It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Crazy
  • Artist
  • Successful

• I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background. Just like a novelist needs background information to make a story interesting, I think an artist needs it for a picture too.

  

  Edward Sorel
  • Interesting
  • Artist
  • Story

• My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Heart

• I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

  

  Gerald Stern
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