Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.Marilyn Hacker
Quotes to Explore
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson -
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
All my books are optimistic!
Malcolm Gladwell -
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
Nat Wolff -
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
T. B. Joshua -
When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
Nadia Comaneci -
Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
Frances McDormand -
Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
Xavier Dolan -
I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
Aaron Neville -
People used to think of me as a comedy actor.
Rami Malek -
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
A. E. Housman
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
Tahl Raz -
I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
Kate Upton -
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman -
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
Kate Atkinson -
I love being in a courtroom.
Kamala Harris -
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
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Small aim is a crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
From a good lie in the middle of a fairway bunker, I'll make the same swing as I do from an average fairway lie. I'll dig my feet in slightly and keep my lower body stable so I won't slip, but I don't change my club selection or setup. It's only when the ball is sitting down in the sand that I'll make some modifications.
Ernie Els -
'Torches' flowed together with interesting intros and outros. It was all very natural.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
Marilyn Hacker