W. S. Merwin Quotes

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

W. S. Merwin

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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.

Forest Whitaker
- People
- Life
- Time
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

Hannes Alfven
- People
- Believe
- Today
Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

Venus Williams
- People
- Great
- Done
If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

Daniel Espinosa
- You
- Imagination
- Planned
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.

Zara Phillips
- People
- Up
- Mind
Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

M. H. Abrams
- Eye
- Tradition
- Jews