Don Marquis Quotes

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Don Marquis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937

Topics

HappinessManFateHandsProsperity

I know who I am. I know what I love.

Angela Ahrendts

LoveI AmKnowWhoI LoveAm

I have a living wall of 30 plants - tarragon, rosemary, echinacea. I like to walk alongside it, plucking and chewing.

Stana Katic

WalkPlantsWallLivingLike

As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.

Tommy Wiseau

JobPeopleWantReactActorThem

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Mignon McLaughlin

SinBeingSavedManyInept

I played with Prince in 2010... the America tour. The one with Misty Copeland dancing on top of the piano! But Prince played the piano on that song. But I played two dates with him on that tour. When we played the gig, every couple of songs, Prince would change his clothes.

Jon Batiste

ChangeSongAmericaClothesTopHim

The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual user's psychological profile in order to maximize their effectiveness.

Douglas Rushkoff

ChildrenExperienceInternetWeb

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

Christian Marclay

TimeArtCultureAmericanAdmire

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

Clint Eastwood

RealityMoreAlwaysGroundedLiked

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

Chuck Klosterman

FriendRelationshipDoingYouTalk

Many hated 'Selma.' Just because my voice and the voice of the people I come from is antithetical to so much of what Hollywood produces. I don't think what I'm saying is in particular radical or anything; it's just different from what they want to sell.

Ava DuVernay

PeopleSayingVoiceThinkWantSell

I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage.

William Hurt

HouseStorageProfessionAnyOscar

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

ScienceSpringDiscoveryUsParadox

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