Allen Tate Quotes

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.

Allen Tate

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• When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Stars

• There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Wait

• Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Important
  • True

• The way I work takes more time for me to get satisfaction. So it's better to take lesser load and do better work. Money can be earned anytime.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Patience

• It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There's a sort of a epiphany to religious thing; it's not sort of church-based, but you end up with a serenity which you didn't have before, and I just simply enjoy it. It really does sound stupid, but I've got to tell you it's made my life.

  

  David Lange
  • Life
  • Up
  • Funny

• My decision has been that anyone who breaks the law will be prosecuted. If you're a parent or you're a single person or you happen to have a family, if you cross between the ports of entry, we will refer you for prosecution. You've broken U.S. law.

  

  Kirstjen Nielsen
  • Family
  • Law
  • Single

• Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

  

  Gene Tunney
  • World
  • Believe
  • Dream

• I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Respect

• We have been dealt a very weak hand by the financial market meltdown, bailouts, and recession. We can't act like it's a strong one.

  

  John Delaney
  • Strong
  • Hand
  • Financial

• Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Lines
  • Circles
  • Vocabulary

• It could make a substantial difference. The estimates ... have suggested that you might be able to cut mortality roughly in half.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Difference
  • Mortality
  • Estimates

• You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • God
  • Doubt

• The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

  

  Ellen Ullman
  • Up
  • Program
  • Programmers

• We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Time
  • Words
  • Knowledge

• The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

  

  James Naismith
  • Basketball
  • Invention
  • Accident

• Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.

  

  James Smithson
  • Society
  • Man
  • Member

• What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Interesting
  • Alone
  • Nice

• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Man
  • All Things
  • Old Age

• I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Everything
  • Keep
  • Somewhat

• Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Spirituality is about the relationships that we have with our self, with others and with the universe.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Universe
  • Self
  • Relationships

• Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Mortality
  • Vocabulary
  • Hermes