Stevie Smith Quotes

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

Stevie Smith

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• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • May
  • American
  • History

• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Dance
  • Floor

• We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Always

• The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Hope
  • Future
  • See

• I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Love
  • Night
  • Ahead

• I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Story
  • Down

• In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • War
  • Action

• Only a dad with a tired face,Coming home from the daily race,Bringing little of gold or fameTo show how well he has played the game;But glad in his heart that his own rejoiceTo see him come and to hear his voice.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Game

• Catfights? What catfights? There is a healthy rivalry between me and other actresses but no one’s ever been bitchy. Kareena Kapoor is a cool girl. As for Preity Zinta, we share an on-screen rapport but we were never friends.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Friends
  • Girl
  • Cool

• Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Broken
  • Aunt

• All you have to do is say Fuck Off when the vagina doctor calls.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Why

• I can tell you that once upon a time when I was doing public events people would ask me, 'What do you think about the arts?, What do you think of the role of women?, What do you think of men?, What do you think of all of these things?', and now they ask one thing, and that one thing is this, 'Is there hope?'

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• It's definitely fun when you're able to translate your practice into the game. It's fun, and you know that your hard work paid off.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Game

• I think journaling is a key to success. You can set clear goals for yourself. You can start noticing repetitive behavior patterns and see the type of things that keep bothering you, and then you can have a bird's eye view of it.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Success
  • Goals
  • Bird

• The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

  

  Gabriel Kolko
  • Men
  • Years
  • Hands

• A decade and a half after victory in the Cold War and end-of-history triumphalism, the 'what do you leave behind' question is more urgent than most of us expected. The Western world, as a concept, is dead and the West, as a matter of demographic fact, is dying.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • War
  • History

• I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Country
  • City

• The editorial page is where you'll find our opinions, while the letters columns and the space for Op-Ed contributors are a forum for debate and discussion.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Space

• The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Dream
  • Treasure
  • DIstances

• Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Cold
  • Stills
  • Drowning