Ali Smith Quotes

Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.'

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• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Real
  • Poetry
  • Friendship

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Drunk
  • Before
  • Got

• My schedule is so crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Crazy
  • Schedule

• The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Character
  • Dad

• Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Money
  • Comedy

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Long
  • Training
  • Army

• In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.

  

  Flume
  • Different
  • Home
  • Feel

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Fighting
  • See

• Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Star
  • Born
  • Kid

• Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Something
  • Selling
  • Clients

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Country
  • Blue
  • Grass

• Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Never
  • Flowers

• I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Guy
  • Everything
  • Big

• Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • May
  • Party

• Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

  

  Bobby Heenan

• My husband, he's very supportive. I couldn't be here without his support along the way.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Support
  • Husband

• Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Life

• At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.'

  

  Ali Smith
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