Allen Tate Quotes
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
Allen Tate
Quotes to Explore
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
Jackie DeShannon
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
Malin Akerman
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
Barry Jenkins
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Jack Horner
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
Ted Danson
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning
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I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.
Tatiana Maslany
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
Eavan Boland
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
Harold Ramis
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
F. Sionil Jose
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
Walter Raleigh
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
Vita Sackville-West
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In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
Jonathan Swift
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The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.
James Balog
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
Buzz Aldrin
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
Allen Tate
