Zadie Smith Quotes

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • World
  • Saying

• There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Difficult

• If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Political

• I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

  

  Hank Haney
  • Great
  • Business
  • Relationship

• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • You
  • Getting Married

• I don't know what love means.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Love
  • Know
  • Means

• One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Government

• Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • More
  • Advanced
  • Poland

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Africa
  • Begins

• I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Day

• Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Debt
  • Ceiling
  • Trigger

• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Single
  • Moment

• My main thing is music; it's what I do.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Thing
  • Main Thing

• Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Best
  • Door

• When someone forgets himself, this by no means makes him altruistic; when a thinking person forgets himself, he immediately also forgets his fellowman, he loses himself and his humanity by becoming engrossed in his subject. Thus he is in a sense more contemplative than a feeling person.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Humanity

• Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Stress
  • Devil

• I think I was supposed to play jazz.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Jazz

• There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Thinking
  • You
  • English