Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes

It felt like I´d been lying on that bed for a thousand years, tormented by every demon possible.

Alexander Gordon Smith

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• The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Economics

• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Young
  • Ready
  • Benefits

• Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Situation
  • Strive

• Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Attention
  • Relationships

• My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Good
  • She
  • Strong

• Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Different
  • Emotions

• The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Death
  • Respect
  • Ideas

• The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Study
  • Come
  • Educated

• Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn't get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Famous
  • Loved
  • Part

• The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Internet
  • Facebook
  • Blur

• I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

  

  Elena Vesnina
  • Beginning
  • Relax

• Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • Survival

• I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • Asking
  • Falls

• Whatever results you get, learn and grow from it and move on to the next one.

  

  Dabo Swinney

• Learning is as much an art as teaching

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Art
  • Learning
  • Teaching

• The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Growing
  • Violence

• When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

  

  Kanye West
  • Water
  • Products
  • Shirts

• We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Moving

• Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Remember
  • Lies
  • Smile

• The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Different
  • Demon

• What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • God
  • Knows
  • Poet

• It felt like I´d been lying on that bed for a thousand years, tormented by every demon possible.

  

  Alexander Gordon Smith
  • Lying
  • Bed
  • Demon