Anne Sexton Quotes

The tongue, the Chinese say,is like a sharp knife:it killswithout drawing blood.

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Effort
  • Organization

• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • History
  • Think
  • Change

• The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Want
  • Earth

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Opinion
  • Popular
  • Diversity

• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Men
  • Action

• 'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Help
  • Best
  • Cool

• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Child
  • Brave
  • Coward

• The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Art
  • Kitchen

• The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Time
  • Real
  • Documentary

• How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Childhood
  • Times
  • Repeat

• The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Winner

• I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Hate

• The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Goal

• You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Experience
  • Community
  • Human

• A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Guy
  • Woman
  • Laugh

• I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Dreams
  • Olympics

• As much as the Congress is criticized - and a lot of it is well deserved - the fact is there are many quiet victories if you keep your head down and know how to maneuver in the process and get things done.

  

  Lois Frankel
  • Done

• The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions.

  

  Martin Rees
  • People
  • Light
  • Space

• When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Small
  • Internet

• We help Chinese companies grow their customers abroad. They use Facebook ads to find more customers. For example, Lenovo used Facebook ads to sell its new phone. In China, I also see economic growth. We admire it.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Help
  • Growth
  • Chinese

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• The tongue, the Chinese say,is like a sharp knife:it killswithout drawing blood.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Chinese
  • Drawing