"The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let……" — Elizabeth Bishop
"The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing."
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35 Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop has 35 quotes on this site.
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of…
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The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that…
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What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see…
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And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
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Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
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Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems,…
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Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
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The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
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I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and…
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Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent…
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What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation,…
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More Armored Quotes
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one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
— Richard Powers
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Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone…
— Gene Spafford
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And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning?…
— Janet Morris
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of…
— Edward Abbey
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Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after…
— Greta Christina
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the…
— Tama Janowitz
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If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
— Ransom Riggs
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Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.
— Heinz Guderian
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Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
— Heinz Guderian
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The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red…
— Steven Soderbergh
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We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one…
— Jeff Cooper
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I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to…
— Roger Ebert
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