Alice Oswald Quotes

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Time
  • Question

• I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • School
  • Understand

• I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Failure

• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Power

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Different
  • Trying

• I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Up
  • Real
  • Trying

• We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Everybody

• I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Live
  • Book

• Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Past
  • Question

• I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.

  

  Pansy Ho
  • Strong
  • Passion
  • Succeed

• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Man
  • Question

• States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Question

• I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you read me?' If they say 'Yes,' I say, 'Do you like it?' If they say 'No,' then I say, 'I don't write for you.'

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Hope

• I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • Trying
  • Television
  • Theater

• In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

  

  David Blaine
  • Truth

• Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

  

  Alan Dundes
  • Children
  • Grandparents

• It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Trying
  • Question