Conrad Aiken Quotes

A chorus of elfin voices blowing about meWeaves to a babel of sound. Each cries a secret.I run among them, reach out vain hands, and drown.

Conrad Aiken

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• My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Percent

• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Good
  • Age
  • Balance

• And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • She
  • Truth

• I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Sick

• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Politics
  • Research
  • Peers

• Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

  

  E. B. White
  • Writing
  • Faith
  • Grammar

• I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Job
  • Father
  • Issues

• I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Think
  • Political

• I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Long
  • Try

• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Ocean

• I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Show
  • Diverse
  • Mac

• I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • See
  • Nations
  • United Nations

• Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Quality
  • Things
  • Volatility

• Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Done
  • Police
  • Letters

• Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right

  

  Ogden Nash

• L'existence du Soldat est (après la peine de mort) la trace la plus douloureuse de barbarie qui subsiste parmi les hommes.

  

  Alfred de Vigny

• I don’t really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I’m not operating on somebody’s brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it’s all funny.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • People
  • Funny
  • Mean

• Our task then is always to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed meaning and values of the few-and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false faces, and on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Challenge

• We never really got married. When we both wanted to we never had the money, somehow. And when we had the money, there was always some kind of quarrel. After a couple of years everybody thought we were married anyway.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Money
  • Couple

• Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

  

  David Mamet
  • Art

• A chorus of elfin voices blowing about meWeaves to a babel of sound. Each cries a secret.I run among them, reach out vain hands, and drown.

  

  Conrad Aiken