Stevie Smith Quotes

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

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• If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Popular

• I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.

  

  Lalah Hathaway
  • Music
  • Stills
  • Behinds

• It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Great
  • Play
  • Rock

• I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Art
  • Behinds
  • Entertainment

• In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • World
  • Dream
  • Kind

• Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.

  

  Francois Mitterrand
  • Great
  • Men
  • Behinds

• Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Virtue
  • Behinds
  • Contentment

• You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you'll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It's like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.

  

  George Foreman
  • Firsts
  • Doors
  • Behinds

• All celebrities are real people behind everything.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • People
  • Real
  • Behinds

• Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

  

  Virender Sehwag
  • Today
  • Reason
  • Behinds

• We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Journey
  • Behinds

• The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.

  

  William Plomer
  • Eye
  • Born
  • Surprise

• The golden age is before us, not behind us.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Behinds
  • Aging

• Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Behinds
  • Bags

• When George VI - displaying a flair for timing that was utterly absent in his lifetime - upped and died, the way was clear for her to inhabit her logical position as the eminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.

  

  Will Self
  • Behinds
  • Thrones

• Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Style
  • Greek
  • Behinds

• And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Time
  • Behinds
  • Oxen

• I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Feels
  • Behinds
  • Left

• Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Vision
  • Eye
  • Secret

• If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.

  

  Eric Nicol
  • Golf
  • Behinds
  • Assuming

• Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. And many, many, if not most interviews have that character. The interviewer who comes in with a list of bullet points they're going to address one after the other. Interviews, properly considered, should be investigative. You should not know what you're going to hear. You should be surprised.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Character
  • Exercise
  • Interviews

• This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Behinds
  • Refined
  • Bosoms