Mark Van Doren Quotes

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be.

Mark Van Doren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 13, 1894 - December 10, 1972

Topics

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I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

Jeffrey Wright

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I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

John Malkovich

TimeMenOpportunitiesThinkBorn

The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.

Ann Rinaldi

GodTodayFreedomSacrificePeople

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

Steve Alford

WorkOpportunityGreatCoachIowa

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

Ritchie Blackmore

YouPlayStageWellStudio

In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeSoulConnectionPersonWithin

I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.

Masahiro Tanaka

LookingGolfPlayAweWatchJust

I try to harmonize and sing every moment that I can.

Mary Lambert

MomentI CanTrySingEvery

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Michel de Montaigne

MenLieShouldBetrayPublic

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

Michelle Pfeiffer

GoodFeelings

I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.

Mohamed ElBaradei

ResponsibilityBloodBearDrop

Think of how dark that Friday was when Christ was lifted up on the cross... It was a Friday filled with devastating, consuming sorrow that gnawed at the souls of those who loved and honored the Son of God.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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