Stevie Smith Quotes
I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.
Stevie Smith
Quotes to Explore
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
Gary Speed
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
Hans Hofmann
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
Karen DeCrow
The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
Naveen Jain
Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
Oren Peli
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'
Orson Scott Card
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
Arthur Schopenhauer
When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.
Fuzzy Zoeller
As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.
Les Wexner
I think some people don't truly understand the situation, and they think, you know, the debt limit, it doesn't really mean anything, and they don't understand the implications on the U.S. economy and on the global markets.
John Delaney
’T was ever thus from childhood’s hour! My fondest hopes would not decay:I never loved a tree or flower Which was the first to fade away.
Charles Stuart Calverley
It's better than it was Sunday. It's improved. They're probably going to take that boot off Tuesday. He'll probably be ready to go, hopefully by Wednesday.
Bob Stoops
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman Cousins
When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.
John Locke
Nazareth
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
Ramana Maharshi
I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.
Stevie Smith
