Top 100 Quotes About Cummings
#1. I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.
Jim Cummings
#2. I fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows
E. E. Cummings
#3. May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
E. E. Cummings
#4. Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue this character with their 'New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' TV series.
Jim Cummings
#5. The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. Cummings
#6. I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.
Jim Cummings
#7. Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.
Quinn Cummings
#9. So don't come in here acting like you matter. You left and took your high horse with you," he takes another step in my direction. My throat constricts.
He's not finished, "And you show up here at my club thinking you can just waltz right in and have a say? No bitch.
Bink Cummings
#10. When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism.
Whitney Cummings
#11. One pierced moment whiter than the rest
-turning from the tremendous lie of sleep
i watch the roses of the day grow deep.
E. E. Cummings
#13. Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.
Quinn Cummings
#14. Remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. Cummings
#15. After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E. Cummings. I read Sidney and Milton and Shelley, piecing together my own aesthetics, my own defence of poetry. I felt alone and religious and desperately sad.
Spencer Gordon
#17. Little known Max fact: I invented the word TWIRGIN (a Twitter virgin).
Max Cummings
#18. The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
E. E. Cummings
#21. The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion
E. E. Cummings
#22. I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
E. E. Cummings
#23. If 180 million people want to be undead, that's their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.
E. E. Cummings
#24. I want to take it back," Streeter whispered. Elvid favored him with a stony smile that revealed a jutting ring of cannibal teeth. "You can't," he said. That was in August of 2001, less than a month before the fall of the Towers.
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
#26. If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.
E. E. Cummings
#27. Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. Cummings
#28. A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being
E. E. Cummings
#30. I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. Cummings
#32. To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings
#34. John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.
Jim Cummings
#35. i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air
E. E. Cummings
#37. Her handwriting was curious - small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).
Erich Segal
#38. When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man.
E. E. Cummings
#39. I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. Cummings
#40. When you break free of your reef and drift with the current, you see that nothing has stayed still except you - everything is different.
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
#42. I shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile
E. E. Cummings
#43. Relax and give the play a chance to strut its stuff - relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about' - like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this Play isn't 'about,' it simply is. Don't try to enjoy it, let it try to enjoy you. Don't try to understand it, let it try to understand you.
E. E. Cummings
#44. African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
Elijah Cummings
#45. The whole truth ...
sings only -and all lovers are the song
E. E. Cummings
#46. Good evening, America. I'm a woman, and welcome to The Late Late Show.
Whitney Cummings
#47. Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise
E. E. Cummings
#48. III Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death
E. E. Cummings
#49. Damn everything but the circus! ... The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.
E. E. Cummings
#51. Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds
E. E. Cummings
#52. I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
Whitney Cummings
#54. Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then no one recognizes me anymore.
Jim Cummings
#55. Annie died the other day
never was there such a lay
whom,among her dollies,dad
first("don't tell your mother")had
E. E. Cummings
#56. Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star ...
E. E. Cummings
#57. I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl.
Whitney Cummings
#58. I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.
Jim Cummings
#59. If you like my poems let them
walk in the evening, a little behind you
E. E. Cummings
#60. A wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.
E. E. Cummings
#61. May I be I is the only prayer
not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.
E. E. Cummings
#62. There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.
E. E. Cummings
#63. I loved Ray from 'The Princess and the Frog.' He was my guy. There was no Ray before me, so there's a level of satisfaction there.
Jim Cummings
#64. Such was a poet and shall be and is
-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.
E. E. Cummings
#65. Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. Cummings
#66. And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.
E. E. Cummings
#67. It was deflating to realize how much my own family's quality of life might improve if I replaced myself with a Fundamentalist stay-at-home daughter.
Quinn Cummings
#68. The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
E. E. Cummings
#69. The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Elijah Cummings
#70. You've invented your own way of being, and perhaps it might be 'odd' to one who has no idea of the life you've led, but to one who does ... " Brayden paused, shrugged. "To one who does, it's ... it's ... I haven't got a word. It's astounding
Carole Cummings
#71. So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.
E. E. Cummings
#74. So, when kiss Spring comes
we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss
lips because tic clocks tock don't make
a toctic difference
to kisskiss you and to
kiss me.
E. E. Cummings
#75. I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
E. E. Cummings
#76. Our children are ever both joy and bane, are they not?
Carole Cummings
#77. I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.
Jim Cummings
#79. What's beyond logic happens beneath will;
nor can these moments be translated: i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May
E. E. Cummings
#80. The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E. E. Cummings
#81. Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?
E. E. Cummings
#82. I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there's probably a stereotype where all pretty girls think they're unattractive, but modeling is the worst thing for your self-esteem, because you're never pretty enough, you're never thin enough.
Whitney Cummings
#83. All nothing's only our hugest home;
the most who die, the more we live
E. E. Cummings
#85. You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a little tired now;
Tired of things that break, and
Just tired.
So am I.
E. E. Cummings
#86. For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
E. E. Cummings
#87. Time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough
E. E. Cummings
#88. More important...you've assembled a curriculum that works for him. It's his education. I suspect he's more likely to have a real education, an education that sticks, if he's part of shaping it.
Quinn Cummings
#90. Yes is a pleasant country:
if's wintry
(my lovely)
let's open the year
both is the very weather
(not either)
my treasure,
when violets appear
love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
(and april's where we're)
E. E. Cummings
#91. Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
E. E. Cummings
#92. A total stranger one black day
knocked living the hell out of me-
who found forgiveness hard because
my(as it happened)self he was
-but now that fiend and i are such
immortal friends the other's each
E. E. Cummings
#93. I remember we all cried like the Missouri
when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because
somebody pressed a button
(and down went
my uncle
Sol
and started a worm farm)
E. E. Cummings
#94. I really have been blessed and fortunate to have accomplished what I have. I hope to do this for a long time. It's such an enjoyable job. I love to do it.
Jim Cummings
#95. Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.
E. E. Cummings
#96. Tumbling-hair
picker of buttercups
violets
dandelions
And the big bullying daisies
through the field wonderful
with eyes a little sorry
Another comes
also picking flowers
E. E. Cummings
#97. a billion brains may coax undeath
from fancied fact and spaceful time--
no heart can leap, no soul can breathe
but by the sizeless truth of a dream
whose sleep is the sky and the earth and the sea
For love are in you am in i are in we
E. E. Cummings
#98. He was intensity. He was strength. He was driving will and stubborn determination. He was reckless passion and guarded distrust. He was fucking beautiful.
Carole Cummings
#99. By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
Elijah Cummings
#100. I wanted her to stretch her mind and her self-confidence, but I also wanted her to play with friends, read books, listen to music and glaze over with the pleasant boredom of a long afternoon with no place to be and nothing to do.
Quinn Cummings
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