Anne Sexton Quotes

As for me, I am a watercolor.I wash off.

Anne Sexton

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• Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Face
  • Act
  • Infinity

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Game

• At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Family
  • Together
  • Rest

• These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Law
  • Election

• The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Great
  • Small

• Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Poetry
  • Everything
  • Soft

• I'd like to to do a major pay-per-view match with Seth Rollins. I'd love do a major pay-per-view match with Stardust.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Like
  • Pay
  • View

• I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Self

• I'm not a gadget freak.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Freak
  • Gadget

• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Action
  • Lost

• While I accept that large investment rounds will always garner headlines, it's almost as if the magic number of how much cash you've managed to raise has become both a stamp of approval and the main metric for gauging a business's true worth.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • True
  • Magic

• I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Night
  • Start
  • Apollo

• It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • House
  • Will
  • Fix

• With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Work
  • Done
  • Song

• The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Lost
  • Israel
  • Disappear

• Language is often changed by writers. We speak English today because Chaucer chose to write in the language of the common people, rather than the Latin or French used by those who were educated. James Joyce had an almost equally profound effect on language when he wrote about the inner self, rather than the outer self.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Today
  • English

• But the challenge must be faced squarely. I believe we can overcome it through our own efforts. We must do so. They key is our national power. Take courage from our national pride and traditions, no matter how thorny the road to independence may be.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Believe
  • May
  • Power

• The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea. Quick little splinters of life, their little lives are fun to them in the sea.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Sea

• Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

  

  Douglas Kennedy

• Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Value

• Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Earth
  • City
  • Saying

• Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

  

  Don McLean
  • Life
  • Needs
  • Deeds

• As for me, I am a watercolor.I wash off.

  

  Anne Sexton