Zadie Smith Quotes

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

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• Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.

  

  Maimonides
  • True
  • Nature
  • Never

• People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Game
  • Struggle

• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• Most of my stuff, I never really watch.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Never
  • Watch
  • Most

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Others

• I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Hopefully

• One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Black
  • Greatest
  • Feminism

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Me
  • Will
  • Consumers

• The future ain't what it used to be.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Future
  • Used

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • Work
  • Family
  • Why

• We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Live
  • Sports
  • English

• Whatever you do, have fun while doing it. That's important for me.

  

  Ciara
  • Important
  • Fun

• I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.

  

  Bruce Beutler
  • Time
  • Important
  • School

• Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Future
  • Medicine
  • Frequencies

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain