Robert Fitzgerald Quotes

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Robert Fitzgerald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 12, 1910 - January 16, 1985

Topics

MyselfDoingPerformerDoes

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

Robert Green Ingersoll

LieUniverseWillNeverAnything

When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.

Anna Netrebko

I AmCareLongStageEverythingAm

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

KnowledgeDesirePleasureTakeBeing

As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.

Amos Lee

LifeManYourselfStartMy LifeYou

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

Sonia Sotomayor

PositiveNegativeLookFocusedNever

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

Robert Dale Owen

MenFirstIdleConvictionsBravery

I was on the train from London to Paris, and all of a sudden it just popped into my head: I'm going to do the Don Loper fashion show from 'I Love Lucy.'

Tom Ford

LoveFashionTrainParisLondon

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

Michael Showalter

LifeFunnyRealReal LifeComedians

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Dean Koontz

MeChoiceI CanElectionMoviesTwo

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

Chrisette Michele

LikeStoreScoop

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

Chris Van Allsburg

LifeMeBelieveMy LifeMagicWill

I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.

Peter Capaldi

TruthTruth IsThinkInterestingYou

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