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John Ciardi Quotes

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

John Ciardi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: english
Birth: June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986

Topics

Sad Courage Men Generation Wish

All my Latino side is from the Bronx.

Jimmy Smits

Latino Side Bronx

I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.

John C. Calhoun

Trust Man I Am Kind Cotton Southern

There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us would care to admit. As shallow as it may be, better-looking people have been shown in various studies to have higher self-esteem and more charisma, are considered more trustworthy and are better negotiators.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

People Research Care Better Long

Science fiction's been good to me. The fans are the most loyal fans in the world.

Robert Picardo

Good Science Me World Fiction Fans

I don't want retired schoolteachers or any other good Americans to be duped by fraudulent organizations into giving money, thinking it is going to go to disabled vets, when in fact it's not at all. It's going in to pad the pockets of some scam artists. I want to stop this stuff.

Max Baucus

Good Money Thinking Giving Stop Go

When I arrived in New York, I was at the Drake hotel for five years; so, yeah, I really miss hotels. It's like having friends stay at your home. Every day you get to treat them, not only to dinner, but for breakfast, and everything throughout the day.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Home Day New York Breakfast Treat

I miss family and friends, and I'd like to get back to work more in Scotland, and do more things like theatre and 'Red Road.' But over here you have the beach and the mountains and the climate. A lot of people diss L.A. as being all tinsel town, fake this and fake that, but a place is only as good as the people you know.

Tony Curran

Work Family Good Beach Mountains

When I come around people, I'm up to date on everything. I know all the new music that's coming out, all the stuff that ain't came out yet.

Juicy J

Music People New Know Everything Up

I never had a lot of confidence in myself.

Dick Van Dyke

Confidence Myself Never Lot Had

To be on my very first spacewalk, to be outside, and to have contamination in my suit to the point that I couldn't see in either eye - that, I think, would cause some people to lose control.

Chris Hadfield

People Control Eye Think Lose See

Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the infinite regress of a brain determining whether a brain is healthy, we have the infinite regress of the idea 'All concepts are brain percolations' being itself a brain percolation, on its own terms.

Timothy Morton

Brain Logic Rules Healthy Infinite

Keep watching 'The 100.' It's an incredible show, and that's my family.

Ricky Whittle

Family Watching Keep Show Incredible