Elizabeth Bishop Quotes

The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us doso many a dangerous thing.

Elizabeth Bishop

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• It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Strange
  • Beer

• My dreams are all follies.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dreams
  • Follies

• My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Children
  • Husband

• I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Pain
  • Tears
  • Many

• I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Feel

• I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Up
  • Mind
  • College

• Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Actually
  • Older

• God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Truth
  • Man

• Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Community
  • Listen
  • Discovery

• My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Career
  • Failure
  • Repetition

• The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Power
  • Past
  • Project

• I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Live
  • Shadows

• Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Reality
  • Know

• If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Up
  • Year
  • Run

• Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • You
  • Clothes

• If it had pleased them the legislators to order that this wealth, after having been possessed by fathers during their life, should return to the republic after their death, you would have no reason to complain of it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Life
  • Death

• All we can do is live every single day and do our best to be present with the ones that we love and with everybody that we come in contact with … The timing of everything seems too divine sometimes to ignore.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Live
  • Single
  • Present

• As a group of people, New Order acted like a divorcing husband and wife: we couldn’t even be bothered to hate one another any more. We’d simply stopped caring about each other. We played our guts out most nights – I like to think we didn’t let our band politics affect the performances – but as soon as we were offstage all our heart was lost again.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Hate
  • Group
  • Performances

• For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.

  

  Caroline Knapp

• Before I was on 'Idol,' I just sat at home and played video games all day long. Now I get to travel and work towards my dream. It's the best feeling ever.

  

  Jessica Sanchez
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Lost
  • Wife

• The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us doso many a dangerous thing.

  

  Elizabeth Bishop