Susan Stewart Quotes

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

Susan Stewart

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• I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Day
  • Woman

• I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Good
  • Christmas
  • Looking

• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Wife
  • Ideas
  • Nothing

• There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Great
  • Tired
  • Sister

• A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Country
  • Man
  • WIld

• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Victory
  • Lose
  • Underdog

• Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Star

• I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Things

• My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Day
  • Cancer

• As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Time
  • American
  • History

• I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Love
  • Like
  • Movies

• Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Done
  • Better
  • Discussion

• There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Enough
  • Look
  • Stand

• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• 'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Home
  • Song
  • Cool

• I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Business
  • Bitter
  • Jealous

• I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Me
  • Always
  • Easy

• When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Choose

• I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time. I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me. I come across as arrogant somehow. In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Voice
  • Internet
  • Impression

• Save the gerund and screw the whale.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Writing
  • Editing
  • Screws

• Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Relationship
  • Marriage
  • Equivalent

• The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • Knowledge
  • Growing
  • Keys

• I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

  

  Rick Scott
  • Frustration
  • Higher
  • Businesses

• The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

  

  Susan Stewart
  • Voice
  • Grace
  • Loss