Ethel Smyth Quotes

If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.

Ethel Smyth

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• Artists
• Sense Of Humor
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• Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Perfect
  • Place
  • Resilience

• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• I'm the best Twitterer.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Best

• You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Story

• Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

  

  Ice T
  • Same
  • New York
  • Group

• If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Law
  • Focus

• We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• Music means itself.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music

• 'Down we go,' said Paddy. 'Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic-''I'm not,' snapped Fay, 'and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Catholic

• Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.

  

  Edward Carpenter
  • Up

• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
  • She
  • Tiger

• We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • People
  • Respect

• I look forward to physical activity; it's a release from stress and a nice distraction. It puts me in a better mood. I never used to take classes before, but then I tore my plantar fascia so I couldn't run. I started taking SoulCycle classes, which I know are polarizing. People have strong opinions. Even though I can run again, I still go.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • People
  • Strong
  • Nice

• I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• All of my music is honest.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music

• I never thought I would tweet - I thought it was too dangerous.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein

• Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

  

  David Mamet
  • Job

• The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.

  

  Lauren London
  • God
  • Car
  • Prayer

• It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

  

  Sally Ride
  • School
  • Down
  • Dumb

• My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me with my make up and hair, and just be there to support me in whatever I do. She always makes sure that no matter what, I'm happy in what I'm doing.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • World
  • Work
  • Help

• The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity, and it's love.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Humanity
  • Judging
  • Artists