Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

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• I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Process
  • Clear

• I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

  

  Acker Bilk
  • Enjoy
  • Still
  • Alright

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Know
  • Scary

• My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • Me
  • Mom

• I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Great
  • Why
  • Think

• In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Country
  • Politics

• Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Always
  • Process
  • Uncertainty

• Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • May
  • Afghanistan
  • Sudan

• Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sacrifice
  • Lives
  • Many

• Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Society

• I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Gay

• I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Music
  • Dance

• I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.

  

  Matt Cameron Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • High
  • Respect

• I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• 'Guild Wars 2' is a wider world in that we have a lot of different mechanics available for storytelling. We have our personal story, the story of you, which is tailored for your character. You answer some basic questions; you make some decisions early on, and that follows through.

  

  Jeff Grubb
  • World
  • Different
  • Character

• When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks.

  

  Jennie Finch

• This tree will stand and grow and prosper, I hope, as a symbol of how this nation will stand and grow and prosper.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Hope
  • Tree
  • Nation

• We contain our past. Unknown it might be, but it persists alive and urging.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Past
  • Alive
  • Persists

• I grew up with older brothers, adore them, can't imagine going through life without them, and I definitely think I draw on that love when I'm writing about siblings. It's so powerful, the jump-in-front-of-a-train-to-protect-them kind of love.

  

  Jandy Nelson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • World
  • Writing
  • Fact

• I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Dance
  • Taught
  • Dancer

• Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

  

  Red Smith
  • Writing
  • Drop
  • Bleed