Anne Carson Quotes
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.Anne Carson
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison -
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
Katey Sagal -
We Franz Marc & Kandinsky thought up the name Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) while sitting at a cafe table.. .Both of us were fond of blue things, Franz Marc of blue horses, and I of blue riders. So the title suggested itself.
Wassily Kandinsky -
If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
Marguerite Young -
I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters in them. They're not just slasher movies with people going to kill people in people's houses. Although I do like 'The Last House on the Left,' and things like that, I do like these ridiculous monster movies.
Ken Marino
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The attack on the transgender troops - disgusting, disgraceful, outrageous. It's just endless. And then you try to do your day job of finding good bipartisan work across the aisle... You're doing both all the time. I guess I would describe it as intense. Everything is very intense.
Kirsten Gillibrand -
I am here to change anything. I'm here to adapt. The critieria between a yellow and red card. What is a foul and what is not.
Pep Guardiola -
I admire Vegas's purity, its entirely wholesome artificiality.
Colson Whitehead -
If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.
Dave Mustaine Metallica -
I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.
Benny Blanco -
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.
Louise Glück
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If you're going to be an R already, you may as well be 'The Hangover,' and you may as well be as shocking as possible, because that's what delivers the most return.
Jon Favreau -
I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.
Stevie Wonder -
Mult-Tenancyi is really the future of our industry.
Marc Benioff -
It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.
Dalai Lama -
They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were.
Cokie Roberts
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The great joy of being a prosecutor is that you don't take whatever case walks in the door. You evaluate the case; you make your best judgement. You only go forward if you believe that the defendant is guilty.
Merrick Garland -
You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to be here.
Will Ferrell -
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler -
Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
Brian Tracy -
Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.
Chin-Ning Chu -
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
Anne Carson