Anne Carson Quotes

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

Anne Carson

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• Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • History
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

  

  Jack Herer
  • World
  • Religious
  • Creative

• Speech happens to not be his language.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Language
  • Happens
  • Speech

• All the terrorists are basically migrants.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Terrorists
  • Basically

• Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Today
  • Service
  • Insurance

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • True
  • House

• You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Experience
  • You
  • Greek

• I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Small
  • Act

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Always

• Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Political
  • Fashion
  • Group

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Real
  • Green
  • Down

• Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Know
  • Years
  • Dangerous

• For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • End
  • Very

• Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

  

  Jon Foreman
  • Hope
  • Suffering
  • Perseverance

• 'They can hopscotch around us,' Chris told Laura. They can pop ahead in time to see where we show up, then they pick and choose the easiest place along the time stream to ambush us. It's sorta like… if we were the cowboys and the Indians were all psychic.'

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Up
  • Time

• Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Business
  • War

• Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

  

  Christopher Reeve
  • Mind

• Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Mistake