Stevie Smith Quotes

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

Stevie Smith

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• I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brave

• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Stories

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Advice

• I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Think
  • Control
  • Person

• But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • You
  • Know
  • Realize

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Important
  • Mirror
  • Tool

• People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • God
  • Funny

• Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Education
  • Nothing
  • Priority

• Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Up
  • Money
  • You

• When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Film

• If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Rock

• I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Community

• I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Day

• I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Good
  • Want
  • Tuesday

• Fear created the first gods in the world.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • World
  • Fear
  • First

• Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • May
  • Day
  • Pain

• I was a weird kid. It wasn't until I saw 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' at 16 that my whole world changed. The obsession with that was equal to the obsession with writing.

  

  Luke Davies
  • World
  • God
  • Writing

• Knowledge about things beyond our immediate environment may be acquired through deduction, if the initial premises are believed to be correct.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Environment

• I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.

  

  Leah Remini
  • People
  • Good

• Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Fall

• My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Wish
  • Cold
  • Born