Quotes of John Ashbery

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After you've lived in Paris for a while, you don't want to live anywhere, including Paris.

- John Ashbery

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“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Some symbols reach to your primordial archives. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. ”

- RVM

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours. ”

- Mandy Hale

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Love is beautiful as written in The Greatest Proposal Book ”

- Khuliso Mamathoni

“ There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ”

- Audrey Hepburn

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur