Conrad Aiken Quotes

I walk in a cloud of wonder; I am glad.I mingle among the crowds; my heart is pounding;You do not guess the adventure I have had! . . .Yet you, too, all have had your dark adventures,Your sudden adventures, or strange, or sweet . . .My peril goes out from me, is blown among you.We loiter, dreaming together, along the street.

Conrad Aiken

• Heart
• Together
• Dark
• Wonder
• Sweet
• Adventure

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• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Heart
  • Doctor
  • Satisfied

• The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Love
  • Child
  • Angel

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Community

• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Heart
  • Game
  • Desire

• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Together
  • House
  • Lost

• I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Funny

• My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Heart
  • Singing
  • Acting

• I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Heart
  • First
  • Box

• My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Silly

• Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Together
  • Add

• Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

  

  O. Henry
  • Up
  • Home
  • Funny

• Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Child
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white - we're all in it together.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Man

• I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Learning

• I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Irish

• Mars was this water-based planet, and we know there was stable water on the surface for a long time, which is critical for life having a chance to develop.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

  

  Duncan Hunter
  • People
  • Fence
  • Fences

• I can say with confidence that I never bought into the hype, and I made sure that the people around me didn't buy into the hype, and I did not surround myself with people who fed me the hype. And I'm glad of that as well.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Made

• I walk in a cloud of wonder; I am glad.I mingle among the crowds; my heart is pounding;You do not guess the adventure I have had! . . .Yet you, too, all have had your dark adventures,Your sudden adventures, or strange, or sweet . . .My peril goes out from me, is blown among you.We loiter, dreaming together, along the street.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Dark