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 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

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Art

• My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her backyard, and one of my favorite memories is of picking lemons together and then baking lemon bars.

  

  Lisa Graff
  • She
  • Together
  • Growing

• Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Independent

• The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!

  

  Pope Francis
  • Father

• To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

  

  John Waters
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• 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