Reznikoff Charles Quotes & Sayings

Not all of our days could be extraordinary. But our lives still could be. — Erin Mckittrick

And took for truth the test of ridicule. — George Crabbe

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish — Charles Reznikoff

It is awkward to see a director on the screen. — Shekhar Kapur

Experience everything. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You need to be content with small steps. That's all life is. Small steps that you take every day so when you look back down the road it all adds up and you know you covered some distance. It took me a long time to accept that, but it's true. You need to have patience."", — Katie Kacvinsky

We may not be alone, but I sure felt like we are. — Jen Minkman

I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage. — Iman

People that say "I can't" should try saying "I choose not to. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Jesus had been betrayed for thirty pieces of silver. I'd betrayed myself for soap. — Nenia Campbell

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly. — Charles Reznikoff

[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds ... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that. — Paul Auster

Like most dancers, I love lip stains! We hate gloss because hair gets stuck in it. — Heather Morris

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Or you just not ask her."
"You might as well slit my throat. — Dee Henderson

The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit. — Charles Reznikoff

I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships. — Bong Joon-ho

Sex, a switchblade, and motorcycle lessons. You really are making sure my night ends on a high note. — Kelley Armstrong

The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind. — Charles Reznikoff

From the dawn of civilization, human beings have tried to find out order in the chaotic world surrounding them. It has however never been easy to find a solution to explain a given system while being a part of that system. The best bet is to find out the most fundamental components within the system and building a theory round these. In other words, a theory that is able to describe the world in totality has to keep the number of basic postulates it depends upon to zero or near zero. — Subhajit Ganguly

I will walk by myself
and cure myself
in the sunshine and the wind. — Charles Reznikoff