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Carl Sandburg Quotes

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Carl Sandburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Society Down Lost Sight Nation May

I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

Megan Fox

Work Fun You Find Know Cry

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Jeanne Moreau

Life Death Say Just No Life After

Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really interesting muscle physiology; really interesting neural computations.

Michael Dickinson

Great Fly Interesting Physics Flight

When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread.

Steven Levy

Fear Space Moving Outer Space Soviet

I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun.

Ron Perlman

Work Fun Feel I Can Done Never

I suspect that a huge amount of the anxiety and suffering that we see around can be closely traced to our wanton misuse of our resources. Just look at any garbage dump and see what is wasted. In a sense, we've wasted our souls.

Jay Parini

Suffering Anxiety Look Resources See

'The Vampire Diaries' is a great show, but it's on the verge of being overcrowded. The amount of characters, a lot of them don't get screen time because there's so much to put in, and it has to center around the love triangle.

Joseph Morgan

Love Great Time Vampire Center Get

I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

David Sedaris

Time Listening You Way Same Iron

When a fan holds out Helen's picture for me to autograph, I usually sign it Linda Hunt - just to make their heads really crazy.

Bonnie Hunt

Me Crazy Picture Out Autograph Just

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

Bobby Seale

People Prison Think Jail Never Bail

Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of Beatles guys than we were Stones or Elvis.

Synyster Gates

Me More Pretty Guy Rolling Beatles

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

Thomas Perry

Character Voice You Person Three