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Sylvia Plath Quotes

Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Sylvia Plath

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963

Topics

Love God Believe Self You Want

I don't just work with these kids to make them good tumblers or good dancers. I'm working with them to make them good citizens - to become taxpayers, not tax-eaters. I teach them to say please and thank you. I show them how to use a knife and fork and how to fold a napkin.

Jesse White

Work Good Thank You You Say Become

I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.

Megan Amram

People Growing Up Weird Feel Looks

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

Jeffrey Donovan

People Me Green Surprise Get Would

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

John Steinbeck

Little Above Clowns Below Writers

That's what's great about the Batman universe. When you explore Gotham, when you explore the villains, all of them point to this one character. This iconic American symbol for how we deal with pain and loss and how we move forward after it.

Tom King

Character Great Pain Forward Loss

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.

Mike D

Time Think Parent Cook Dude I Think

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

Jose Ferreira

Good Business Day Risks You Go

I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.

Dreama Walker

Person Kind

I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Corin Tucker

People World Think Feel Say Want

I don't have an image. Don't give me one. I want no image to have to uphold.

Bob Weinstein

Me Want Image Give Me Give Uphold

It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and personal. It's almost like dating: you allow yourself to be consumed by the other - not in a bad way, but in a way that happens in nature.

Arca

Nature Music Yourself Dating Deep

When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffee, and that as hot as I can drink it, so that the sweat breaks out on me, and if by so doing I can't restore my body, a whole apothecary's shop couldn't do much, and that is the only thing I have done for years when I have felt a fever.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Morning Coffee Me Evening Doing Hot