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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
by Wallace Stevens (Poet, American , born in 1879) keywords: because, bottom, boy, echoes, familiar, feeling, his, listening, most, poetry, read, them, through, toes, wade, water , way I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.
by Mick Taylor (Musician, English , born in 1948) keywords: actually, album, become, been, familiar, had, immediately, made, more, music, play, popular, released, stage, sure, traditional, will , would The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
by William Makepeace Thackeray (Novelist, English , born in 1811) keywords: author, engaging, familiar, make, most, new, powers, things , two I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
by Twyla Tharp (Dancer, American , born in 1941) keywords: allowed, because, bodies, bottom, decisions, different, familiar, felt, into, know, line, make, our, own, politicians, power, responsible, should, simply, their, think, totally, where , would Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.
by Marlo Thomas (Actor, American , born in 1937) keywords: allowed, boys, counterparts, familiar, girl, how, living, more, much, see, teenage, than, their, these, thought, were , would Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.
by Thuy Trang (Actor, Vietnamese , born in 1973) keywords: afraid, before, each, familiar, grow, kids, ok, present, reality, responsibility, say, seen, take, up, us , will I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.
by Rose Tremain (Novelist, English , born in 1943) keywords: always, big, charting, day-to-day, explore, familiar, interested, looking, reality, stories, subjects, territory, very , which Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
by Patrick Warburton (Actor, American , born in 1964) keywords: book, cartoon, character, comic, evolution, familiar, him, his, know, now, step, third , tick For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
by Margaret J. Wheatley (Writer , American) keywords: back, contribute, decisions, familiar, good, holding, ideas, image, insisting, instructions, leaders, organization, ready, responsibility, take, their, them, wait, wanting, willing , work I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
by Margaret J. Wheatley (Writer , American) keywords: backwards, became, century, command, companion, control, ever, familiar, few, great, insistent, leadership, leap, our, past, report, sad, since, taken, territory, uncertainty , years Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
by Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician, English , born in 1861) keywords: analysis, bother, does, familiar, happen, mankind, mind, obvious, requires, them, things, undertake, unusual , very There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.
by Armstrong Williams (Journalist, American , born in 1959) keywords: across, bleeds, country, every, familiar, leads, news, room, sayings, sells, sex , two One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.
by Roy H. Williams (Businessman , American) keywords: ad, advertiser, affect, already, before, begins, changed, even, familiar, hasn, hear, new, opinion, positive, question, still, them, thing, though, times , us Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
by Edward Witten (Mathematician, American , born in 1951) keywords: completely, direction, enter, everything, familiar, fuzzy, into, making, new, out, particle, spreading, step, string, things, used, where , world When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.
by Alfre Woodard (Actor, American , born in 1952) keywords: connection, everyone, fall, falling, familiar, feel, gut, happen, heart, love, lust, often, screen, special, suddenly, then, thing, together, very , watching Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
by Herman Wouk (Novelist, American , born in 1915) keywords: always, been, familiar, hebrew, interest, judaism, literature, live, mine, scriptures, sons, speak, strong, two , way They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.
by Michael York (Actor, British , born in 1942) keywords: also, appealing, creation, did, extent, familiar, funny, know, live, make, mike, myers, night, saturday, script, sent, something, thought, very, which, work , would No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
by Lin Yutang (Author, Chinese , born in 1895) keywords: beautiful, comes, familiar, head, his, home, how, old, pillow, realizes, rests, travel , until To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'
by Catherine Zeta-Jones (Actor, Welsh , born in 1969) keywords: choreography, down, ended, familiar, five, four, make, more, scenes, step, three, treating, turn, two , up
