Conrad Aiken Quotes

Something had changed-but it was not the street-The street was just the same-it was himself.

Conrad Aiken

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• The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Giving
  • Community
  • Senior

• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Great
  • Know
  • Mom

• Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Now
  • Listen
  • Kick

• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Thoughts
  • Walk

• I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Think
  • Effect
  • Matrix

• One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Policy
  • Tradition
  • Resources

• I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Fashion
  • Collections
  • Resurrect

• I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Care

• An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Police
  • Without
  • Executive

• I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Career
  • Training
  • Week

• I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • American
  • Society

• I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Important
  • House
  • Political

• Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Good
  • Love
  • Strong

• I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Responsibility
  • Same
  • Nation

• British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Desire
  • Passion
  • Chinese

• 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

• You have frightened and daunted me. I will stop stealing at once.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Stop

• The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Dog

• People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Imagination
  • Religious
  • Voice

• I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

  

  Kelly Brook
  • Sexy

• My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Son
  • Agree
  • Punk

• Something had changed-but it was not the street-The street was just the same-it was himself.

  

  Conrad Aiken