Amy Lowell Quotes

If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.

Amy Lowell

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• If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Done
  • Because
  • Cookie

• The art of life is to show your hand.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Life
  • Art
  • Hand

• I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • Men
  • Walk

• Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fight

• I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Gold

• It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Growing
  • Kind
  • Fruit

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Inspired

• I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dreams
  • Visions
  • Suspicious

• I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Fear
  • Try
  • Self

• I want people to be able to give their voice.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Want
  • Voice

• If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Home
  • Guy

• The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Worship

• God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • God
  • Energy

• As the source of our new life in Christ, the Holy Spirit is also, in a very real way, the soul of the Church, the love that binds us to the Lord and to one another, and the light that opens our eyes to see all around us the wonders of God's grace.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Fire

• I get shitty scared. One show in Amsterdam, I was so nervous I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile-vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

  

  Adele
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Fire

• The people are weary of being oppressed, persecuted, exploited to the maximum. They are weary of the wretched selling of their labor-power day after day - faced with the fear of joining the enormous mass of unemployed - so that the greatest profit can be wrung from each human body, profit later squandered in the orgies of the masters of capital.

  

  Che Guevara
  • People
  • Power
  • Fear

• Where there is change, there is happiness.

  

  Anamika Mishra
  • Change
  • Happiness

• If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Fire
  • Worship
  • Believed