Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell ...
MARY OLIVER What will you do with your wild & precious self?
LANCE ARMSTRONG You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes.
Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ...
JOSé N. HARRIS What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Before you tell people you are bored, there is one thing you have to do. Find out what has gone wron...
OUSSAMA HEDHLI But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked.
“Make me”, I replied.
ERICH SEGAL You were given the precious gift of life; do something useful with it and do not waste what you have...
NICOLE MA Your voice is wild and simple.
You are untranslatable
Into any one tongue.
ANNA AKHMATOVA Questions, I've got some questions
I want to know you
But what if I could ask you only one...
JACK JOHNSON What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell hi...
MELINA MARCHETTA Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO You slept with Curran and you didn’t tell me? I’m your best friend.”
“It didn’t come ...
ILONA ANDREWS It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cau...
C. JOYBELL C. Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)
Me plus you. (Imma ...
JUSTIN BIEBER You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER What's the plan?" she asked.
He grinned. "My plan is to do things that make you want to hang ou...
RAINBOW ROWELL This is the irrational season
Where love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with rea...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A grim expression came over Syah’s face. “The colt you speak of lost its mother during a storm. ...
D.M. RAVER my dear
all the way you drove me . thought it was me .
examples are too many .which one i...
LITYMUNSHI Adam wants to know what took you so long?
"Tell him I had wild, passionate sex with a complete ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you that
makes you want to live. And when ...
VALJEANNE JEFFERS You Hang on to your pain like it means something; like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you, ...
NANCY OLIVER One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him "...
SOCRATES Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way t...
VIJENDER SINGH I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.
Tell me why you loved...
ANDREA GIBSON Eros mumbled something.
"I'm sorry?" said Aphrodite.
"Whatwouldjesusdo."
"What would ...
MARIE PHILLIPS People fail because one of two reasons:
1: They don't know what to do to improve
2: ...
ROB LIANO Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said.
"Okay."
"One, are you sitting dow...
DARYNDA JONES When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a brideg...
MARY OLIVER Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green ...
MARY OLIVER Dear Fellow Human Being,
You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!
Te...
JASZ GILL People always ask me
"Son what does it take
To reach out and touch your dreams?"
To t...
TIM MCGRAW Your life is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to Him.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Promise me one thing wild child,
Never filter your soul to suit a mould.
NIKKI ROWE Serpine: Well, Skulduggery? Where is that tired old defiance - the taunting, the goading? Where are ...
DEREK LANDY Make a memory with your children,
Spend some time to show you care;
Toys and trinkets can't ...
ELAINE HARDT They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
Since but one voice is heard, i...
C.S. LEWIS What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"Alive.
ALLY CARTER I have something to tell you."
"How, you have something to tell me?"
"You have...
STEVEN BRUST No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you ...
MARY J. BLIGE Tell me what you want" he [Warner] says desperately. "Tell me what to do," he says, "and I'll do it.
TAHEREH MAFI I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed w...
TAYLOR SWIFT Jill had three basic statements about life,
1. It is your life, usually with some added social ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You must always do what you feel is right
As you will have to live with your decisions for the ...
MIMI NOVIC What is this love
that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI Tell me what I can do to help you feel better."
Well...I always like when you kiss me...<...
KRISTIN CASHORE Can I tell you one thing?” Melonhead says.
I swallow. “Sure.”
“One day isn’t you...
BRIGID KEMMERER what's your name?"
what?" i asked, squinting at the light.
your name." I reconized Dr. Ole...
RICHELLE MEAD Do not plan your life as if you own it
JENNY ROSALES-FERAER My choice is what I choose to do,
And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.
BEN HARPER I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.
You ask me what to do about t...
IDRIES SHAH Dear Fellow Human Being,
You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!
Te...
JASZ GILL What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me!
But you're far from this. Your finge...
MARKUS ZUSAK Through wisdom your days will be many,
and years will be added to your life…
By wisdom ...
ANONYMOUS You are the king no doubt, but in one respect,
at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. ROBERT FAGLES What happened?" he asked brusquely, interrupting me.
"What do you mean, what happened?"<...
KRISTI COOK The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...
SETH GODIN Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps.
"Wait! Just wait," she called, ...
EOIN COLFER You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know.
And I may do it, if I so choose.
You tell me t...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Tell me..how do you stand there?
filling the doorway....of my life.
SANOBER KHAN You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA This is your life. Do what you want and do it often.
If you don't like something, change it. <...
HOLSTEE MANIFESTO I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living ...
PETER SLOTERDIJK Jane," I said quietly.
She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.
"Yes, Mary? F...
PHILIPPA GREGORY To share is precious, pure and fair.
Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don...
MARVIN GAYE Live your life do what you want to do. If no one understands it , know you do and that is all that m...
KAT MORGAN Better associations
__________________
If you associate yourself with a change maker...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Life is GOD's gift to you, what you do with it is your thank you to GOD!
N. S. COLE I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER I know a way to stay friends forever,
There's really nothing to it,
I tell you what to do,...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Better Associations:
If you associate yourself with a change maker,
Your life will b...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Then tell me Mark, how can I do it? How do I watch her life fade everyday but not hurt? How do I con...
D. LOVE Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?'<...
MICHELLE HODKIN Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do!
Your life mainly consists of 3 thi...
ALLAN RUFUS I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They...
JACKIE COLLINS I tell you this, and I tell you plain
What you have done, you will do again
You will bite ...
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN Do you know, it's really hard to be a parent. I blame it on Santa Claus. You spend so long making su...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?'
The Imass shrugged before replying.
'I thi...
STEVEN ERIKSON A vision without a plan is fantasy. A plan without a vision is mediocrity. Believing 'God will do ...
DEREK RYDALL I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -
There's really nothing to it.
I simply t...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN One way to show remorse is just say, 'I am so sorry I killed those people.' Another way to show remo...
SISTER HELEN PREJEAN You let me set the water in the shower, and followed me into the booth to stand there with me under ...
JULIO ALEXI GENAO There is a difference between how you live your life, and what you do with your life.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life
One day you must tell...
ROHINTON MISTRY Your eyes tell me everything about you.
Your words only confirm it.
ANTHONY T.HINKS No!
I don’t love you!
I just like you, a little.
Your lips are sweet,
an...
ZORICA SAVRON My daddy used to tell me 'the first time you fall in love it changes your life forever, and no matte...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I'm counting to ten in my head."
"Is it helping?"
"No."
"It doesn't help me with you ...
ILONA ANDREWS And recite to them the news of Abraham
When he said to his father and his people: What do you ...
QURAN Your instincts tell you what to do. Your intelligence tells you what is right.
AVIS JOHN
More Mary Oliver
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is morta...
MARY OLIVER You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER The Uses Of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...
MARY OLIVER Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
MARY OLIVER One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept s...
MARY OLIVER To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegr...
MARY OLIVER Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roug...
MARY OLIVER Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilder...
MARY OLIVER Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least ...
MARY OLIVER Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. ...
MARY OLIVER So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
MARY OLIVER The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gon...
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a c...
MARY OLIVER I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up wit...
MARY OLIVER As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world wit...
MARY OLIVER You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility ...
MARY OLIVER Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
MARY OLIVER Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life i...
MARY OLIVER The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
thou...
MARY OLIVER Love Sorrow
Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must
take care of what has...
MARY OLIVER There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?
MARY OLIVER Always there is something worth saying
about glory, about gratitude.
MARY OLIVER Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, ...
MARY OLIVER If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.
MARY OLIVER My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here ...
MARY OLIVER So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing, MARY OLIVER the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which...
MARY OLIVER When
When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know
any of us, what happens th...
MARY OLIVER MARY OLIVER I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
MARY OLIVER I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
...
MARY OLIVER Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
MARY OLIVER Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
MARY OLIVER I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
MARY OLIVER There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day ...
MARY OLIVER My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work...
MARY OLIVER There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as...
MARY OLIVER Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.
MARY OLIVER I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involu...
MARY OLIVER To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or ano...
MARY OLIVER I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and neve...
MARY OLIVER I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily...
MARY OLIVER Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling MARY OLIVER from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of ...
MARY OLIVER So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God,
one...
MARY OLIVER Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some goo...
MARY OLIVER There are things you can’t reach. But
You can reach out to them, and all day long.
MARY OLIVER We meet wonderful people, but lose them
in our busyness.
We’re, as the saying goes, al...
MARY OLIVER The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shorew...
MARY OLIVER When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself include...
MARY OLIVER The poet dreams of the classroom
I dreamed
I stood up in class
And I said aloud...
MARY OLIVER You may not agree, you may not care, but
if you are holding this book you should know that of a...
MARY OLIVER I do not live happily or comfortably
With the cleverness of our times.
The talk is all abo...
MARY OLIVER I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
...
MARY OLIVER What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
MARY OLIVER But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done ri...
MARY OLIVER Praying
It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lo...
MARY OLIVER I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
MARY OLIVER Love yourself. Then forget it.
Then, love the world.
MARY OLIVER You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know w...
MARY OLIVER Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.
MARY OLIVER Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, ho...
MARY OLIVER Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a ha...
MARY OLIVER To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
MARY OLIVER Percy wakes me (fourteen)
Percy wakes me and I am not ready.
He has slept all night ...
MARY OLIVER The sweetness of dogs (fifteen)
What do you say, Percy? I am thinking
of sitting ou...
MARY OLIVER I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck...
MARY OLIVER LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)
He puts his cheek against mine
...
MARY OLIVER Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as fast as you can
along the shining beach, or the...
MARY OLIVER Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes...
MARY OLIVER It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
MARY OLIVER I Go Down To The Shore
I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on...
MARY OLIVER If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of live...
MARY OLIVER And now you'll be telling stories
of my coming back
and they won't be false, and they won'...
MARY OLIVER New and Selected Poems: Volume Two
MARY OLIVER To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work
MARY OLIVER When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom,...
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER What can we dobut keep on breathing in and out,modest and willing, and in our places?
MARY OLIVER That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I wen...
MARY OLIVER I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social work...
MARY OLIVER But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which ...
MARY OLIVER I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not givi...
MARY OLIVER West Wind #2
You are young. So you know everything. You leap
into the boat and begi...
MARY OLIVER The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
MARY OLIVER We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possib...
MARY OLIVER I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
MARY OLIVER Come with me into the woods where spring is
advancing, as it does, no matter what,
not bei...
MARY OLIVER If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the w...
MARY OLIVER Why I Wake Early
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning
...
MARY OLIVER After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
MARY OLIVER You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. W...
MARY OLIVER Pretty Song"
From the complications of loving you
I think there is no end or return....
MARY OLIVER The Uses of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me a box fu...
MARY OLIVER And who do you
think you are sauntering along
five feet up in the air, the ocean a blue f...
MARY OLIVER As for life,
I'm humbled,
I'm without words
sufficient to say
how it has b...
MARY OLIVER Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.
MARY OLIVER oxygen
Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even,
while it calls the earth its ...
MARY OLIVER Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.
MARY OLIVER I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going we...
MARY OLIVER The Poet With His Face In His Hands
You want to cry aloud for your
mistakes....
MARY OLIVER Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the wei...
MARY OLIVER How I go to the woods
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
...
MARY OLIVER I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this...
MARY OLIVER When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the b...
MARY OLIVER The world has need of dreamers as well as shoemakers.
MARY OLIVER You must never stop being whimsical.
MARY OLIVER I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my life...
MARY OLIVER I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my li...
MARY OLIVER It
learns quickly what sort of courtship it is going to be.
Say you promise to be at your ...
MARY OLIVER And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the ...
MARY OLIVER In your hands
The dog, the donkey, surely they know
They are alive.
Who would ...
MARY OLIVER You’re like a little wild thing
that was never sent to school.
MARY OLIVER and anyway it’s just the same old story --
a few people just trying,
one way or another,...
MARY OLIVER It is one of the perils of our so-called civilized age that we do not yet acknowledge enough, or che...
MARY OLIVER DAISIES
It is possible, I suppose that sometime
we will learn everything
there ...
MARY OLIVER Now and again there's a moment,
when the heart cries aloud:
yes, I am willing to be
t...
MARY OLIVER Does the hummingbird think he himself invented his crimson throat?
He is wiser than that, I thi...
MARY OLIVER ...to be absent from the world
and alive, again, in another...
MARY OLIVER I believe you did not have a happy life.
I believe you were cheated.
I believe your best f...
MARY OLIVER And what has consciousness come to anyway, so far, that is better than these light-filled bodies?
MARY OLIVER The water, that circle of shattered glass,
healed itself with a slow whisper
and lay back
MARY OLIVER All my life
I have been restless-
I have felt there is something
more wonderful than ...
MARY OLIVER Of course! the path to heaven
doesn't lie down in flat miles.
It's in the imagination
MARY OLIVER When I have to die, I would like to die
on a day of rain -
long rain, slow rain, the kind ...
MARY OLIVER Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green ...
MARY OLIVER They stay in my mind, these beautiful people,
or anyway beautiful people to me, of which
t...
MARY OLIVER And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills,
like a million flowers on fire...
MARY OLIVER When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a brideg...
MARY OLIVER When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a b...
MARY OLIVER At Blackwater Pond
At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
after a...
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER And there you are
on the shore,
fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER Drive down any road,
take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your o...
MARY OLIVER Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
a...
MARY OLIVER When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when...
MARY OLIVER Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly
MARY OLIVER In Blackwater Woods
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
in...
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell ...
MARY OLIVER The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own ...
MARY OLIVER You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER TIDES Every day the sea blue gray green lavender pulls away leaving the harbor’s dark-cobbled unde...
MARY OLIVER Percy and Books
Percy does not like it when I read a book.
He puts his face over th...
MARY OLIVER I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better...
OLIVER I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to...
OLIVER I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ...
OLIVER I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact...
OLIVER My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people...
OLIVER I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T...
OLIVER My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o...
JAMIE OLIVER If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -...
OLIVER SACKS The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeli...
JOHN OLIVER I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
JOHN OLIVER I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo...
OLIVER STONE I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONE You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it w...
OLIVER STONE In any film there's always a historical implication.
OLIVER STONE I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt...
OLIVER STONE You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment ...
OLIVER STONE It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced...
OLIVER STONE I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
OLIVER STONE I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one...
OLIVER STONE But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with ...
OLIVER STONE A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she...
OLIVER STONE Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder...
OLIVER STONE I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find th...
OLIVER STONE I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifyin...
OLIVER STONE When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
OLIVER STONE Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that&...
OLIVER STONE If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great....
OLIVER STONE I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
OLIVER STONE I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of...
OLIVER STONE There's an electrical thing about movies.
OLIVER STONE I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been ...
OLIVER STONE I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progre...
OLIVER STONE I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s...
OLIVER SACKS I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
OLIVER SACKS I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
OLIVER SACKS Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbe...
OLIVER SACKS I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the ...
OLIVER SACKS I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so...
OLIVER SACKS At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat th...
OLIVER REED If the money's right, I'll do a film.
OLIVER REED You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stre...
OLIVER REED I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
OLIVER REED I'm really a pacifist.
OLIVER REED Awe and respect are two different things.
OLIVER REED I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
OLIVER REED What's the point of staying sober?
OLIVER REED Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dr...
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