Marilyn Hacker Quotes

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

Marilyn Hacker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1942

Topics

WritingLanguageConnectedWayUse

I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.

Jessica Stroup

PetSleepRememberSeeingAnimals

Campaigns maybe encourage us to pay attention to attributes that maybe aren't that important in the presidency.

John Dickerson

AttentionImportantPay AttentionPay

I am wholesome.

Andrea Corr

I AmWholesomeAm

I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.

John T. Chambers

ThreeTopSmartestLeadersMet

A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.

Alvin E. Roth

GoodPeopleEconomistsKidneyLot

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

Sugata Mitra

AloneChildrenLanguageReachGroup

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone de Beauvoir

LifeLivingDyingOnlyMaintain

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

Michel Patini

WinYouLoseGamesSomeDraw

As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, 'Oh, there's a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.'

Michael Schur

PeopleFeelPlanYouSometimesMore

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

Joyce Brothers

LoveWomenManThinkJudgeYou

Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.

Janine Benyus

CarPeopleDieYearNowMore

I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmented. You have companies in downtown San Francisco, companies in Mountain View, and people are driving between them all. It's kind of nice in New York to just jump in a cab and reach another company so easily.

Jon Oringer

MountainNew YorkPeopleDrivingYou

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