Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Jorge Luis Borges

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: argentinian
  • Birth: August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986

Topics

ArtPoetryBeforeWrittenOral

Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.

John Lithgow

BodyPlayMy OwnInsideOwnRole

For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.

Alvaro Uribe

YouSecurityMoreSoldiersNeed

I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

Steve Coogan

ChoicesInterestingWayTrySafe

The stage is such an investment, and it's so emotional that it's really hard to tell how that will go.

Stephen Dillane

GoInvestmentWillHardStageTell

The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.

Simone Biles

PersonalityExerciseWayFloorYour

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

PositiveConfidenceCharacterOutcome

My experience working the KKK assignment influenced the rest of my career in law enforcement in that it taught me to think and act on my own initiative when my superiors in the department stood in my way.

Ron Stallworth

ExperienceMeLawLaw Enforcement

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Mignon McLaughlin

CourageSeeAroundGoesAnywayThem

I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.

Drew Barrymore

HappyThinkImpactBeing HappyBeing

I don't know about England so much, but in Germany and some of these other countries, the pink was something that they liked. For those kids, the pink and black and the whole look with the sunglasses and the leather jacket was the right kind of hero they could get behind, and I think that really set me apart from everyone else.

Bret Hart

HeroMeSunglassesPinkBlackThink

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Brooke Langton

DancersBroadwayFilmOurActual

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

Peter Mandelson

WorldSayingGlobalizationGrowing

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