Anne Carson Quotes
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
Candice Olson
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
Walter Salles
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There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
L. Ron Hubbard
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
Karen O
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
Adam Jones
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Lipgloss is my calling!
Vanessa Hudgens
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I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.
Dan Quinn
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Saint Francis de Sales
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
Vanessa Kerry
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
Haley Bennett
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
Sally Ride
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
Brown Campbell
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
Malcolm Wallop
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And I think I have a distinct voice.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
P. C. Cast
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
Walt Kelly
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My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.
Clarke Peters
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
Rachel Nichols
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones.
Barbara Holland
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
Anne Carson