Marianne Moore Quotes

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Marianne Moore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 15, 1887 - February 5, 1972

Topics

ArtPoetryCreatingRealGardens

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

Jean Paul Gaultier

TogetherI AmIdeasThinkClothes

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Stephen Covey

KeepMainThingMain Thing

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

WomanOnlyWouldCourtLike

Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure.

Mike Krieger

LearningVisionPeopleLookingImage

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

Josh Hutcherson

LoveMeStoryEarlyKindSomething

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

Jonathan Brandis

FearMyselfActorInvolvedSomething

Many foreigners imagine that Latin American cuisine is spicy, but Chilean food, on the whole, is extremely bland: salt, vinegar, mayonnaise, and more salt are the four basic condiments. Black pepper is conspicuously absent, and not only from the food - it is also rarely available even on request.

Jonathan Franklin

FoodBlackAmericanSaltMoreSpicy

It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have.

Cliff Richard

FriendsCircleImportantChristians

I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.

Brandi Chastain

TodayVideo GamesThinkPlayGoOut

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

Anne Lamott

LoveChristianDownI CanTalkSit

When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.'

William Hurt

FearThinkYouLivingKidStar

Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.

Peter Jackson

CharacterBuildingFatYouSkinWay

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