Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.

Muriel Rukeyser

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 15, 1913 - February 12, 1980

Topics

HopeTogetherWordsStoryPictures

I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

Jessie J

TimeMomentThinkLongYouCareer

People get comfortable with technologies.

Jennifer Doudna

PeopleComfortableGetTechnologies

When I'm treating myself, it's a full-on burrito, all loaded up!

Jenna Ushkowitz

MyselfUpTreatingFull-OnLoaded

I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that.

Melora Hardin

WorkLoveHomeIdeasDownSometimes

The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Matthew Gray Gubler

NatureBeginningManDawnEndSince

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Jean-Paul Sartre

BattleLostThinks

Once you're in a network, you can do a whole bunch of things to that network. It's just that NSA doesn't have the authority to do that.

Michael Hayden

YouAuthorityThingsWholeJustNSA

In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.

Michael Dirda

ScienceChildrenAdventureMystery

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

Steven Pinker

WorldLanguageBecauseInterested

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Tom Hopkins

LeadershipSelfTrueTouchFirst

I was always stuck in a musical no man's land.

Ritchie Blackmore

ManLandAlwaysStuckMusical

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

Christopher Reeve

GameThinkYouPlayHandDealt

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