Anne Sexton Quotes

But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.

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• I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Enjoy

• I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Father
  • Play
  • Right

• If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Day

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Why
  • Laws
  • Islam

• I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Love
  • See
  • Shopping

• Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Good
  • Why
  • Success

• Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • Money
  • Why

• I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Why
  • High
  • Kind

• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Why
  • Happy

• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Children
  • Why
  • Play

• I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Why
  • Know
  • Always

• We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Why
  • You

• When I was a kid, like four or five years old, I was obsessed with the 'Batman' TV show in the '60s. And I took it totally seriously. At that age, I took it completely seriously. I didn't get the fact that it was kind of played for laughs. I didn't understand why my mom was rolling her eyes or chuckling.

  

  Lee Bermejo
  • Why
  • Age
  • Eyes

• Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Character

• What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Running
  • Question

• I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.

  

  Mary Landrieu
  • Work
  • Great
  • Country

• But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Why