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.

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• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Universe
  • Two
  • Stupidity

• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Age
  • Youth

• Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Teacher

• 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
  • Up
  • Blue

• 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
  • America

• 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
  • People
  • House
  • Monster

• 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
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• 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
  • Change
  • Red
  • Adapt

• I admire Vegas's purity, its entirely wholesome artificiality.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Vegas

• If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Beer

• 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
  • Music
  • Different
  • Single

• 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
  • Simple

• 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
  • May
  • Hangover

• I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Family
  • Friends
  • I Love

• 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
  • Music
  • Love
  • Strong

• Mult-Tenancyi is really the future of our industry.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Future
  • Industry
  • Mult-Tenancyi

• 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
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Dream

• 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
  • People
  • Selfish
  • Materialistic

• Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Dying
  • Circumstances

• Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Music
  • Field
  • Wonderfully

• But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Mean
  • Player
  • Expectations

• When I see Bin Laden with his AK-47, I got nervous. But what can I do, terrorists aren't fools: they too chose the most reliable guns.

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • Nervous
  • Terrorist
  • Laden

• 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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