Mary Oliver Quotes

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Mary Oliver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WritingSometimesGroupStrangeUp

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.

Joanna Scott

YearEarlyWorkingAssistantAgency

So many people subconsciously shy away from getting rich because they believe they'll be judged, they'll lose the people they love, they believe that desiring money is a bad thing, money is the root of all evil, etc.

Jen Sincero

LoveMoneyPeopleEvilBelieveRich

Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.

John Lasseter

PeopleWorldStoryYouEdgeThree

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

Michael Bloomberg

ChangeCultureNew YorkCityEnough

It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.

Amanda Schull

LightPeopleEatingInterestingHard

I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

Stephen Lang

RomanticPoetryPeopleWantPersonal

Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.

Spike Lee

WomanManPeopleBlackYouWhite

You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

Tom Selleck

YouKnowWatchingUpTVTV Series

Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can't put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You'll never learn.

Jason Reynolds

ChangeYourselfGrowLearnYouWill

As coaches, we usually have plenty of changes from one year to the next. Sometimes it seems like it's at one position. Sometimes it's across the board. But this is really a part of every year that we have in coaching in the NFL.

Josh McDaniels

CoachingYearSometimesChangesNext

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

Johnny Galecki

FutureLiveTechnologyCultureDay

My plan for 'The New York Times,' if I get the deal, will be putting the paper on every newsstand across the country and making 'The Times' accessible to every Chinese household. China is such a big market and is too big to miss.

Chen Guangbiao

New YorkPlanCountryNewWillBig

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