Alice Oswald Quotes

A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.

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• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Buddhist

• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Country
  • Small
  • Author

• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opportunities
  • Become
  • Rally

• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • More
  • Exciting
  • Smaller

• I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Very
  • Matters
  • Pass

• I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Want
  • Myself

• When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
  • My Life
  • I Can

• Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Different
  • Today
  • Intelligence

• Seeing a catering truck feels like home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Home
  • Truck
  • Seeing

• When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Different
  • Important
  • Building

• Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Movies
  • Television
  • Shows

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Go
  • Companies

• Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Writing
  • Best
  • Talent

• I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Training
  • Jew

• I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Leave
  • Any
  • Manuscripts

• My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Art
  • Paintings
  • Plague

• It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Superhero

• The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.

  

  Cheryl Hayashi
  • Time
  • High

• You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It's like when you meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend, you tell them all your best stories. By the time you have been married for 10 years, they are crying, 'Shut up!'

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kitchen

• That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Heart
  • Kids

• I've been keeping journals since I was 13.

  

  Keke Palmer

• A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Time
  • Tree