Tomas Transtromer Quotes

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

Tomas Transtromer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: April 15, 1931 - March 26, 2015

Topics

LifeEyesMy LifeAnxietyDarkWay

The people of Iraq have suffered greatly.

John Chilcot

PeopleIraqSufferedGreatly

I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of stuff, because you don't have to do that. You don't have to act like that, and you don't have to live like that in order to be successful.

Andre Ward

LiveYouKindActSuccessfulGoing

In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures.

Robert Kennedy

FamilyCommunityJusticeSeeCome

I don't know why it was canceled, but 'Mancuso, FBI,' it should have had a good long run, but it wasn't picked up. Maybe there was a problem with me. I have no idea.

Robert Loggia

GoodMeProblemLongKnowRun

I've studied documentarians extensively to come up with my own in-house style. I'm a student of Michael Moore's films, of Eisenstein, Riefenstahl. Leave the politics aside, you have to learn from those past masters on how they were trying to communicate their ideas.

Steve Bannon

StylePoliticsPastIdeasLearnYou

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

Rodney Dangerfield

MeWishChairUncleDyingHe

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

Lorene Scafaria

WorkWomanOpportunitiesThinkYou

When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.

Judith Light

ServicePeopleWeightWorryingMuch

Country music, to me, is what I grew up on.

Chris Lane

MusicMeCountryUpCountry Music

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

Chuck Palahniuk

FaithYourselfTiredYouDownKnow

I have such respect for guest actors. They don't know all the characters as deeply as the regulars, and the cast isn't your family, so you have more at stake.

Brenda Strong

FamilyRespectYouKnowMoreGuest

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

Brennan Manning

ForgivenessGreatLosingWorldWorth

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