Mary Oliver Quotes

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.

Mary Oliver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1935

Topics

SoulFoolYourselfYouLot

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.

Jodi Rell

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We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

John Buford

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Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

Jello Biafra

DieWillDeadPunkOnlyMass

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

John Galsworthy

ManActionThoughtUnhappyOutGet

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

Matthew Sweet

CulturePeopleMePlayGoJapan

I like someone who has a little bad boy in them, a little edge.

John Varvatos

SomeoneBadBad BoyEdgeBoyLittle

The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'

Spike Milligan

LifeBeautyAloneExperienceWarGo

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

Steven Spielberg

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In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

Rosanna Arquette

BusinessMenHollywoodVeryInsecure

I'm not an athlete dater, really. I would get too jealous. They're really gone all the time. Different hotel rooms.

Chrissy Teigen

TimeJealousHotelAthleteGoneGet

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.

Pedro Almodovar

ChallengeMeWantDirectorLineSee

As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, 'I know this character,' and you don't do the work anymore.

Shanola Hampton

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