William Everson Quotes

#1. We both loved the birds and animals and plants. We both felt far happier out of doors. I felt a peace in nature that I could never find in the human world, as you know.

Tracy Rees

#2. Our people shall be free

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

William Everson

#4. Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

William Everson

#5. The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Niels Bohr

#6. It is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never be used as the food of the individual.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. Whoever, within his own soul and in human relations, escapes the dominion of force is loved but loved sorrowfully because of the threat of destruction that constantly hangs over him.

Simone Weil

#8. Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

Marvin J. Ashton

#9. Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an artifact, and every age establishes upon the basic functional structure its own particular stamp.

William Everson

#10. Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Jane Austen

#11. As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#12. There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.

Zinedine Zidane

#13. I've done a bunch of jobs since 'Deadwood' went off the air, but it's always been a very high bar that those other shows have to live up to.

Jim Beaver

#14. I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.

William Everson

#15. I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.

Melissa Leo

#16. In terms of technological progress,
the public is slower than focus group.

Toba Beta

#17. One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness ... which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.

William Everson

#18. Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would have liked his father to hold on a moment longer.

Melina Marchetta

#19. I want to know what your skin
feels like after three days
of traveling and no bother
of a shower because what
we see is more and worth
more than how we feel.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#20. Today Carly Fiorina announced that she is running for president. Someone else bought 'CarlyFiorina' and posted 30,000 sad emoticons to represent all the people she laid off at Hewlett-Packard. I haven't seen that many sad, blank faces in one place since the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.

Jimmy Fallon

#21. I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.

William Everson