Theodore Roethke Famous Quotes
"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go."
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
A mind too active is no mind at all.
Theodore Roethke Quotations
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."
Alvin Barkley
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
"Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear."
Blaise Pascal
Evil to him who evil thinks.
King Edward the Third
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Aesop
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas"
Jean Kerr
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To follow, without halt, one aim There's the secret of success."
Anna Pavlova
It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.
Pamela Ribon
"Et tu, Brute. You also, Brutus."
Julius Caesar