Stevie Smith Quotes
Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
Quotes to Explore
-
I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
-
My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
-
The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
-
You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
-
We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
-
I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
-
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
-
My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
-
The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
-
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
-
I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
-
Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
-
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
-
I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
-
My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
-
My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.
-
Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
-
Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
-
We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
-
I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
-
Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
