Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes
We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.
Quotes to Explore
-
Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
-
Anna Wintour has guided me.
-
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
-
Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
-
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
-
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
-
The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
-
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
-
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
-
I might be one of the very few people in this industry who doesn't have a 'me too' story.
-
Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.
-
On golf: ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners.
-
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
-
Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.
-
Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.
-
We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.
