Stevie Smith Quotes
If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
-
Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
-
There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
-
When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
-
I was so ashamed of who I was.
-
'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
-
Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
-
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
-
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
-
I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
-
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
-
I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
-
I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.
-
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
-
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
-
I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products?
-
You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.
-
A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.
-
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
-
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
-
When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.
-
I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?
-
If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.
