Anne Carson Quotes

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

Anne Carson

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• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • You
  • Fool
  • Genius

• The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Country
  • Control
  • Government

• I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Book
  • Down
  • Now

• Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Gold

• Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Why
  • Remember

• It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Training
  • Eating

• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Sports

• We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Long

• You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Business
  • Young
  • Show

• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Light
  • Beauty

• I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Great
  • Want
  • Feeling

• I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • God
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• I remember too, a distant bell...and stars that fell...like the rainout of the blue.

  

  Johnny Mercer
  • Remember
  • Blue

• Chance favors only those who court her.

  

  Charles Nicolle
  • Chance
  • inspirational
  • Court

• THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Power
  • Perfect
  • Problem