#stands

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. ↗

— James Dickey

#lightning #outside #poet #rain #someone

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#concerns #enforce #general #level #me

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#art #arts #beginning #building #dancing

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#age #been #between #classical #considerable

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#body #consciousness #different #different attitude #heel

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands. ↗

— Fred Perry

#got #out #sit #stands #where

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#believe #genuine #i #i believe #i believe the

One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#dakota #divided #entire #forward #more

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball. ↗

— Phil Simms

#because #everyone #get #good #sometimes

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#basis #chef #cuisine #exciting #go