Lucille Clifton Quotes

blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

Lucille Clifton

• May
• Fear
• Eyes
• Water
• Understanding
• Forever
• Eye
• Wind
• Kiss
• Innocence

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Family
  • Think
  • Period

• Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Politics
  • Places
  • Brooklyn

• The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Writer

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Want
  • Blue

• Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Help
  • Today
  • Free

• Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Christ
  • Within

• When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Police

• Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Loved

• At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Knowledge
  • Change
  • Simple

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Political
  • Caring

• You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.

  

  Joel Coen
  • Weird

• This view of the infinite, which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!

  

  Georg Cantor
  • History

• Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • Exercise

• Pixiophobia: a fear of Pixies. I made this up, but believe me it should be a word because it sure is a legitimate fear.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Fear
  • Word
  • Legitimate

• blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • May
  • Fear
  • Eyes