Marilyn Hacker Quotes
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Quotes to Explore
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
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It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
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I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.
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I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
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Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
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I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.
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Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.
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Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
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We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.
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The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
