Stevie Smith Quotes

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

Stevie Smith

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• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Important
  • Money
  • Success

• It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Long
  • Red
  • Shoes

• It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • God
  • Day
  • End

• You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Done
  • Think
  • Me

• To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Country
  • Me
  • Aids

• I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Negative
  • Nasty
  • Narrow

• AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Kind
  • Argument
  • Divine

• I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Always

• Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Devil
  • Heat
  • Complain

• I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Creation

• There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, ‘What do you need? What do you want?’

  

  Barbara Boxer

• I’m just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I’m the sort of person who worries about the difference between 'slim' and 'slender.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Words

• Some people think Hollywood is shallow. I find that it's home.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Home

• The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Hate

• I'm just trying to be Emory Cohen.

  

  Emory Cohen
  • Trying

• Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and-most marvelous of all-went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.

  

  Alfred William Howitt
  • Christ
  • Systems
  • Beneficent

• One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

  

  Booker T. Washington

• Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek. “Hello, are you sure you’re with the right brother?” Sophia had never had a younger sibling. But this man with his laughing eyes and bright smile... “Are you making me an offer?

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Good
  • Past
  • Eyes

• People get really nuts around cars. They get angry at cars, they get angry at their car, they get angry at people driving in cars; there's something really comical about that, about automobiles.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • People
  • Car
  • Angry

• A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Friends
  • Sea
  • Angry