Sappho Anne Carson Quotes & Sayings

I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp
brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure. — Anne Carson

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right. — Peter Capaldi

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people. — Florence Welch

Big Brother is watching ... look busy. — Brandon Boyd

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie. — Bertolt Brecht

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out. — Dave Barry

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. — Armand Assante

Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent another generation of thinkers. All gone.
Our seeds are disappearing. — Janisse Ray

All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home. — Harold Bloom

Children do run from me. And so do some adults. — Lana Parrilla

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere. — Paul Weller

If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person. — Anne Stuart

You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice. — Eric Thomas

Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other. — Richard G. Scott

Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income. — John W. Snow

What happened to-day, a narrative — Gertrude Stein