Stevie Smith Quotes
I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.
Quotes to Explore
-
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
-
I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
-
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
-
As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
-
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
-
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
-
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
-
I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
-
Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
-
You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
-
For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
-
As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
-
I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
-
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
-
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
-
I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
-
We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
-
If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.
-
For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.
-
I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
-
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
-
I hate my hair! When clean, it is fuzzy, and when not clean, it is lank.
-
A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not. And yet she is spending her life, perhaps, in dreaming of accidental means of unrestrained communion.
-
I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.
