Marianne Moore Quotes

I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.

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• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Training
  • Police
  • Soldiers

• I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Know
  • Always
  • Busy

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comparison

• Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

  

  Vance Havner
  • People
  • Nothing
  • Grave

• It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Great
  • She
  • Girl

• I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Important
  • Think
  • Fear

• I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • Game
  • Success

• Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Good
  • Love
  • High

• I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thought

• Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Business
  • Night

• I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • High
  • Like
  • Sad

• In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Change
  • Universe
  • Years

• If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • God
  • Fear

• For a building that is supposedly a symbol of love, it has generated a lot of anger. Or rather, some people have been angered by what others have said about it, and have felt called on to defend its honour.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People

• This is Ze Frank, thinking so you don't have to. (Standard sign-off for 'The Show'; varies at times).

  

  Ze Frank
  • Thinking

• The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

  

  John Constable
  • World
  • Art
  • Nature

• Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • School
  • Career
  • Law

• Your crystal? That’s silly. Whom do you think you are fooling? Come on, everyone knows that I threw the baby out of the window. The crystal is shattered on earth, and I do not care. I am no longer anything but a skin, and my skin does not belong to you.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Earth
  • Baby
  • Silly

• I write really well on the road.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Road

• How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Possess

• I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.

  

  Marianne Moore