Stevie Smith Quotes
Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.
Stevie Smith
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
Malik Bendjelloul
One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.
Karen DeCrow
Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
Yoko Ono
People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'
Gaby Hoffmann
The bumping of lower-quality men out of their marriages through competitive reductions in the incomes of higher-quality men continues until the incomes of the lowest quality men are reduced to their single levels.
Gary Becker
Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies.
Pat Buchanan
I never use notes, they interfere with me.
Ken Blanchard
It was the Conservatives who first protected people in the mills.
George Osborne
I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.
Sebastian Vettel
Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
Karen Joy Fowler
Religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison
Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.
Stevie Smith