Mary Oliver Quotes

At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.

Mary Oliver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimePerspectiveGrowing UpThinkUp

My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'

Joe R. Lansdale

FatherCarPeopleLookingBlackYou

Translation and UnitedMasters, which is all one company, is my vision and my dream, and I think it's today's reality of the convergence between storytelling, technology, and culture.

Steve Stoute

TechnologyTodayVisionCulture

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

Rosie Perez

MyselfCallRicanPuertoLatin

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

Michael Palin

HappyPeopleMeI CanSeemQuite

I was a professional and did my best to prepare for every fight, but after PRIDE Grand Prix, to be honest, I didn't have motivation to go on.

Mirko Cro Cop

BestFightPrideMotivationGo

I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.

Jonathan Van Ness

LoveTimePhoneI CanOldWatch

I love 'Downton Abbey.'

Jonathan Van Ness

LoveDownton AbbeyI LoveAbbey

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

Donald Trump

TimeWalkPeopleYouDownStreet

I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.

Dean Devlin

PhilosophyNeverAlwaysIncompetence

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

Ashley Tisdale

YourselfSmartBe YourselfYouDumb

It was always important to me that I made a record where I really sang well, and I don't think it's happened yet. There's always a possibility with each album that I might not record again, and I wanted to produce one that I could feel was mine.

Alison Moyet

MeThinkFeelImportantAlwaysWell

When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers. Often when I'd stroke her she'd turn white beneath my touch, the colour of a relaxed octopus.

Sy Montgomery

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