Stevie Smith Quotes
Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.Stevie Smith
Quotes to Explore
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell -
I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
Barry Bostwick -
I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
Naomi Klein -
I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
Oscar Nunez -
I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
Danica Patrick -
I love design.
Venus Williams
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Father drove fifty miles each evening behind his spanking team of horses to keep his date with the Southern girl - carefully chaperoned by FOUR maiden aunts.
Irene Dunne -
'How do they feel about demons off in Atur?' he asked.'Scared.' My father tapped his temple. 'All that religion makes their brains soft.'
Patrick Rothfuss -
I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
Larry Wall -
When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.
Elias Canetti -
...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford -
Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.
Charlie Cox
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It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime.
Linda M. Godwin -
From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are either set in imaginary worlds or feature the appearance in the familiar world of some imaginary entity.
Brian Stableford -
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
Claes Oldenburg -
'7 Years' seems to have attracted a lot of age groups - people seem to see their own lives in the song, and it's great to see so many people reacting in that way to it.
Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham -
I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.
Alexis Arguello -
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles
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I’ll always say I think it’s all hard work. There are a few strokes of luck, and the rest has been hard work. But the thing is, if you’re not working hard, you don’t put yourself in the position for the good luck to happen.
Ken Casey -
What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.
Carl Andre -
My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
Vidya Balan -
When you're trying out on Broadway, it's very hectic, and you're making changes night after night. There's a lot of pressures from producers to make some changes, and you're writing for actors who are in it - and sometimes the limitations of actors who are in it.
James Lapine -
Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.
Stevie Smith