Anne Carson Quotes

Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.

Anne Carson

• Men
• Thinking
• Money
• Stop
• Desire
• Sometimes
• Language
• Sex

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • School
  • Kids
  • Like

• I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Care

• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Problem

• Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Together

• The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Way
  • Like
  • Idea

• I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Parents

• I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

  

  Earle Combs
  • Animal
  • Right
  • Dumb

• 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

• Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Men
  • Different
  • Love

• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Create

• If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • God
  • Money
  • Knows

• The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Star
  • Been

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Electricity
  • Table

• We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Tax
  • Clarity
  • Incentives

• No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Christian
  • Civilization

• As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Thought

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.

  

  Meir Soloveichik
  • God
  • Mind
  • Real

• Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.

  

  John Krasinski
  • People

• From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

  

  George Berkeley
  • God
  • Mind

• Fighting and arguing amongst brothers are normal. Living together can also cause disagreements. I don't think it will work if there's none.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Fighting

• Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Money