Has Beens Quotes - Page 39

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.

You're an interesting woman." "Your interest has been duly noted.

My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up.

There have been times in my life where I was asked to do things and I didn't feel comfortable with it.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.

Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.

We have places in America that really have been just forgotten.

One murder is too many. But it is important that we learn about what has been effective.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.