Anne Sexton Quotes

I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.

Anne Sexton

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• A great painting is a great painting.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Great
  • Painting

• I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Day
  • Woman

• I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Care
  • Deepest

• Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Community
  • Dance

• I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Look

• Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Reading
  • Standardized

• Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Food
  • Consequences

• Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Fame
  • Fast
  • Bubble

• Make-up is an extension of your clothes.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Clothes
  • Your

• I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Mean
  • Idea
  • Feminine

• Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Man
  • Victory

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • World
  • Hope

• In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Good
  • God
  • Marriage

• The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Way
  • Politics
  • Ready

• Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Emotional

• But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• The right-minded man, ever inclined to righteous and lawful deeds, is joyous day and night, and strong, and free from care. But if a man take no heed of the right, and leave undone the things he ought to do, then will the recollection of no one of all his transgressions bring him any joy, but only anxiety and self-reproaching.

  

  Democritus
  • Night
  • Free
  • Strong

• I started playing music when I was really young.

  

  Aleksa Palladino
  • Music

• I just try to deliver the laughs every time I get the opportunity.

  

  Kenan Thompson
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.

  

  Anne Sexton