Wallace Stevens Quotes

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Wallace Stevens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 2, 1879 - August 2, 1955

Topics

BeautyKnowJustWhichAfterPrefer

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

Matt Taibbi

UglyPeopleResultWantClassPoor

Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.

Troy Polamalu

BeautyWordsBibleReadingYouNew

Nixon's deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could periodically taunt him.

Robert Dallek

DeepCircleSatisfactionStrangeHim

I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.

Rory McIlroy

WaitNightYouSundayWednesdayKid

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.

Mary-Kate Olsen

DayThinkWantOne DaySideI Think

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

Mason Cooley

WomanManSheHerHeIgnores

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

Martin Scorsese

FamilyFatherRelationshipPeople

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Michael Phelps

SportsYouDreamMoreLimitGet

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

Joy Page

DreamsYourselfYouChooseDream

I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

Judith Faulkner

ScienceStudentComputer ScienceMath

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

Jose Serrano

PeopleGroupCrimePrejudiceRealize

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

Conrad Veidt

MyselfActorBiographyJustMovie

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