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Randall Jarrell Quotes

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Randall Jarrell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 6, 1914 - October 14, 1965

Topics

Life Home Live Rest Better You

Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated, and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.

Me Choir She Rebellious Sing Just

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.

King Colors Library Trying Down Out

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

Fear People Think Say Want Most

When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.

Water Training Doing Injuries Pool

You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'

Women Angry Enough You Wondering

If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.

Travis Kalanick

Business You Focused Right Gate Out

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

Laughter Sometimes Seldom Carefree

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Funny Power Great Together Words

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Funny Experience Job Believe Way

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

Mistakes Fool Effort People Me

I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.

Work I Am Happy Foundation Doing

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

Memory You Know Kind Always Head

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