Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes the act of seeing and knowing by personal experience, as well as the act of giving evidence.

Muriel Rukeyser

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceGivingSeeingPersonal

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything.

Jeremy Bulloch

ThinkBackEverythingEmpireI Think

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

John Fiske

DayMeWineFeelingGoBread

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

GoodMoneyPeopleGamePartnerships

Sometimes I've seen comments about my knees or about my jawline, or people write things like, 'She still has signs of being a boy,' and then I realized that these are beautiful features. I've grown to love them.

Andreja Pejic

LoveBeautifulPeopleSometimesBoy

Whatever team you go to, you want to have guys who help you be successful there.

Robert Griffin III

TeamHelpYouGoWantWhatever

Work like your life depends on it, but remember it doesn't.

Amir Khan

LifeWorkRememberYourDepends

I'm a mixture of untidy and anal.

Trinny Woodall

Mixture

One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.

Louis Pasteur

WorkDoneMustCould

I'm a Sagittarius. We need things done now.

Christina Applegate

DoneNowNeedThings

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

Bruce Nauman

DoingYouFindSwimUsedJust

If I see my fans crying, I just want to give them a hug... and tell them I love them.

Austin Mahone

LoveHugWantSeeTellFans

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

Wolfgang Petersen

TogetherDemonsWantUnderstandHand

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