Carl Rakosi Quotes

#1. I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Carl Rakosi

#2. The universe is an intelligence test.

Timothy Leary

#3. The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

Marc Forster

#4. George Oppen is a tough old bird. If you've never seen what [he] sees, it's because you haven't sat still long enough and looked as he has. The things he sees feel like the gnarled bark of a tree. The tree is there too. You can put your weight against it. It won't give.

Carl Rakosi

#5. We are human and our nature is to air.

Amanda Palmer

#6. At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

Carl Rakosi

#7. Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#8. Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

Carl Rakosi

#9. Friends are not made, but recognized.

Carl Rakosi

#10. As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

Lydia Sigourney

#11. I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

Victor LaValle