Stevie Smith Quotes

Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.

Stevie Smith

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• In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • America
  • Success

• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Care

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Win
  • Determination

• We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Trying
  • Always
  • Big

• None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Kids
  • Together

• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Why
  • Understand

• The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Knowledge
  • Passion
  • Collaboration

• I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Director

• More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Long
  • More
  • Away

• I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Model
  • Beauty
  • Conform

• The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Sound
  • Test

• It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Waves

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Work
  • Office
  • Here

• A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Young Man

• Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Anxiety

• I hate pockets in trousers … By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Hate

• Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Foolish
  • Loan

• To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Courses
  • Seventies
  • Normality

• I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Writing
  • Person
  • Smartest

• The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

  

  Lydia M. Child
  • Life
  • Humanity

• Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Humanity
  • Beauty
  • Able