Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Wallace Stevens Quotes

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Wallace Stevens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Live Imagination Mind Think

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Dream Rational Typical

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France

Copy Said Take Well Been Thing

I think anger is a good thing.

Steve Bannon

Good Anger Think I Think Thing

I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.

Jason Scott Lee

Problem Enthusiasm

The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.

Josh Klinghoffer

Music Heart Happy People Me Want

My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back.

Jon Pardi

Music Me Listening Loved Remember

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

Donald McKay

Work Ending Story Hand Shoe Up

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Douglas Alexander

Style Politics Been Labour Moved

After a few drinks, my mom would recite her lines as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice' from her high school play. But I first discovered Shakespeare properly when I was about five. I used to look for the most complicated books I could find and pretend to be reading them. I wanted people to think I was smart.

Chris Adrian

School Smart People Mom Reading

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

Anthony Zinni

Violence You Matter May Give Deal

I try not to plan that too much.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Plan Too Much Try Much Too

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

Sherilyn Fenn

Weird Early Television Special Like