Elizabeth Bishop Quotes
From a magician's midnight sleevethe radio-singersdistribute all their love-songsover the dew-wet lawns.
Quotes to Explore
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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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.
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I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.
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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.
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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.
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I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
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You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.
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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.
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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.
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In one second, without any previous training or upbringing, he had become the wettest man in Worcestershire.
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
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In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.
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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
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ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.
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We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
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Shame on us if 100 years from now our grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by Global Warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?'
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I've always liked the downtrodden character on different shows. Before 'Parks,' I loved the Toby character on 'The Office.' I do like playing that type of thing.
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Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.
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When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
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From a magician's midnight sleevethe radio-singersdistribute all their love-songsover the dew-wet lawns.
