Elizabeth Bishop Quotes

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

Elizabeth Bishop

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Know
  • Sleep
  • Dawn

• Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Feeling
  • Alone
  • Singing

• We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Sex

• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Peace
  • Meaning
  • Socialism

• 'Game of Thrones' focuses on what's real.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Real
  • Game

• I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Follower
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Great
  • Daily
  • Push

• I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Reach

• Sex is emotion in motion.

  

  Mae West
  • Sex
  • Emotion
  • Motion

• I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • God
  • Men
  • College

• I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • House
  • Nice

• My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • World
  • War
  • Fly

• One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Party

• I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Army
  • Chicago
  • Special

• I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Way
  • Person
  • Feel

• I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Society
  • Growing
  • Psychological

• Remembering then is not a matter of literally reduplicating the past. . . . In fact, if we consider evidence rather than presupposition, remembering appears to be far more decisively an affair of construction rather than one of mere reproduction. Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless, and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of organized past reactions or experience, and to a little outstanding detail which commonly appears in image or in language form. It is thus hardly ever really exact, even in the most elementary cases of rote recapitulation.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Evidence
  • Image
  • Construction

• Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.

  

  Walter Wink
  • Prayer
  • Atmosphere
  • Suffocating

• Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Gaze

• To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Friend
  • Sad
  • Forget

• Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

  

  Elizabeth Bishop