Famous Quotes

"I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing."

Rita Dove on Amazing

More quotes about Amazing

• "Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be."

  Angelina Jolie on Amazing

• "If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results."

  George S. Patton on Amazing

• "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

  Harry S. Truman on Amazing

• "If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."

  Les Brown on Amazing

• "Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."

  Conan O'Brien on Amazing

More quotes by Rita Dove

• "I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."

• "One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."

• "What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!"

• "You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible."

• "Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."