Stevie Smith Quotes

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

Stevie Smith

• Trying
• Remember
• Tree
• Forget
• Flower
• Woody
• Stalking

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• I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
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  • Changing

• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Game
  • Sweet
  • Friendship

• We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Good
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• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Environment
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• I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Ideal

• For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Writing
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• Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Time
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Desert

• I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • Man
  • Football
  • Rich

• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Will
  • Over
  • Ghost

• Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • American
  • You

• Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children's party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Children
  • Together
  • Party

• The Hamptons remind me of my childhood vacations. I love the beach, restaurants, and produce found on the East End.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Childhood
  • Beach

• I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Inspired
  • Brave

• There's always something that needs attention when you own a property.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Attention

• We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • America
  • Dream

• I remember thinking, 'If I don't love the woman that I look at in the mirror, I am never going to be successful.' That was the moment I had to start convincing myself to look in the mirror and start saying, 'I love you.'

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Mirror

• I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Children

• I think most people don't even know what 'woo pig sooie' is if they're not a sports fan or they're not from Arkansas.

  

  Matt Besser
  • People
  • Sports

• I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Tree