Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes

I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

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• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • War
  • Dark

• It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Me
  • Water

• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Proud
  • Beauty

• I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Party
  • Saying

• When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Love
  • Freedom

• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • World
  • Energy
  • Kind

• I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Understanding

• To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Why
  • Man

• The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • World
  • Appreciate

• I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Past

• I just want to continue the way I am going.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Way
  • Continue

• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Effort
  • California

• The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Great
  • Family

• America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • War
  • America

• What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Way
  • Me
  • Project

• The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World

• They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Greek

• Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

  

  Edward Bond
  • World
  • Art
  • Hope

• I put a lot of weight in what I do, and you and I can talk to each other in a certain way because that's how people interact, but I don't really know how to talk to the entire world.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • World
  • Way

• I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Remember

• I realized I couldn't raise two kids, coach soccer, be on the PTA, teach full time, and do all the administrative bookkeeping. I do need to sleep four or five hours a day.

  

  Kathy Szeliga
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Sleep

• There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • Mind
  • Running

• It’s interesting how God arranges your schedule. When you’re helping someone else, you never run out of time, when you’re just interested in helping yourself, time is real short.

  

  Cathy Hughes
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Running

• I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

  

  Red Smith
  • World
  • Way
  • Suffering