Elizabeth Bishop Quotes

From a magician's midnight sleevethe radio-singersdistribute all their love-songsover the dew-wet lawns.

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• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • May
  • Understanding

• I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • People
  • Dirty
  • Eating

• I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Myself

• After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Years
  • System
  • Welfare

• I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Love
  • Know
  • Genre

• I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

  

  Felice Picano
  • American
  • Law
  • Legal

• Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Single
  • Movies

• Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Amazing
  • Theater
  • Washington

• You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Know

• My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Business
  • High
  • Father

• Don't know much about history, don't know much Biology. Don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful world this would be.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • World
  • Love
  • Know

• In one second, without any previous training or upbringing, he had become the wettest man in Worcestershire.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Training

• The perception of beauty is a moral test.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Moral
  • Perception

• In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.

  

  Aliko Dangote

• I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Experience

• ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.

  

  James Comey
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Model

• I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Life
  • Great

• 'Fargo,' man, with so many actors playing so many great characters, and then they do another season, and it changes all over again? It's wild.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Great

• I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast writing the stories because I was writing in a voice more my own, as opposed to a man's. HBO ended up buying four of them. I think that had a direct impact on my decision to write a book.

  

  Jill Davis
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• My weight fluctuates between 205 and 220, depending on how much I pay attention to it.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Attention

• In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Death
  • Church
  • Sins

• From a magician's midnight sleevethe radio-singersdistribute all their love-songsover the dew-wet lawns.

  

  Elizabeth Bishop