Carl Sandburg Quotes

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967

Topics

WorkLanguageHandsUpSlangGoes

Why can't I beat AJ Styles? I beat AJ Styles in the past before.

Jinder Mahal

PastWhyIn The PastBeatBefore

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

Jidenna

CapitalismThinkEverythingI Think

Crashing is never funny, but sometimes you can jump up, laugh at your stupidity, and go, 'What the hell was that?'

Jens Voigt

FunnyStupidityHellLaughYouJump

Michelle Obama. She is big on encouraging kids to eat healthy - which is great.

Jennette McCurdy

GreatHealthySheEatBigKids

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

Matthew Fox

CharacterBuildingFilmmakingAlways

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

Michael Ignatieff

ExperienceGovernmentMeCrazyThink

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

Steve Buyer

FamilyLovedWorryNowWillFuneral

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

Martin Scorsese

PeopleGoSeeAnywhereEitherMany

I'm very fond of piano players.

Michael Parkinson

PianoPlayersVeryFond

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

Jean de la Bruyere

GreatGiftDrawingYouConversation

I have always just made things. I don't see what I make as being defined by a medium or aesthetic. It probably comes more from a fundamental restlessness, an attempt to create tools for questioning or understanding, and I have always been interested in using a wide spectrum of mediums to do this.

Doug Aitken

AestheticToolsUnderstandingCreate

I work anywhere between three and 10 years on a project, depending on the size. My lifetime is finite. Therefore, I have to look carefully at how many projects I want to put into my lifetime.

Peter Zumthor

WorkLookThreeWantProjectSize

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