Anne Carson Quotes

DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.

Anne Carson

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Deep

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Brain

• As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Always

• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Same

• Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Career

• I think that our comfort is in our history.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • History
  • Think
  • Comfort

• When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Bad
  • Playing
  • Started

• I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
  • Want
  • Thought

• Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Everything
  • Without
  • Poison

• I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Year
  • Europe
  • Olympics

• Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Long
  • Character
  • Funny

• If I change in any way, I'm not going to be the same player.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Player

• My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Hand
  • Emotional
  • Childhood

• There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

  

  William James
  • Reality
  • Former
  • Latter

• In L.A., I did a lot of vintage flea market dresses and Doc Martens.

  

  Bella Hadid

• If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind...for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Die
  • Blessed

• DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Why
  • She
  • Death