Mary Karr Quotes

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

Mary Karr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1955

Topics

AgeMeLookingAttentionHealthyUp

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

Joe Biden

ThinkMostCivil LibertiesCivil

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Joan Didion

SwimmingPoolNeverAlwaysWanted

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Anais Nin

WomenWomanManWorldWrongCreate

I listen to Jay-Z, Nelly, Nas, Ludacris and all the young kids out there. I listen to them, and I have mad respect for them.

Stephanie Mills

RespectMadYoungListenOutKids

It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.

Shirley Henderson

LifeChildrenBestStressParents

When yields on corporate bonds are lower than dividends on stocks, that unnerves me.

Lloyd Blankfein

MeCorporateThanBondsDividends

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Joseph Butler

LifeProbabilityUsGuideVery

I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.

Jarvis Cocker

SimpleAttentionYouChooseKnow

We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

Deepak Chopra

NatureCompassionCreativeUniverse

There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.

Dean Devlin

YouRiseNowDigitalRealOut

It's not clear in physics why you can't see the future.

Brian Josephson

FutureYouPhysicsWhySeeClear

If you are going to be a starter in the NFL or a major-college program, you are going to have to beat out other great quarterbacks.

Brock Osweiler

GreatYouOutBeatNFLGoing

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