Stevie Smith Quotes

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

Stevie Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 20, 1902 - March 7, 1971

Topics

SheBehindRefinedBosom

Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.

Joe Haldeman

ScienceMenSmartFaceProblemMost

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

Andrew Cohen

LiveRelationshipExperienceMindUp

Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.

Sophia Amoruso

MoneyFeetBetterLooksBankYour

Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.

Rush Limbaugh

StruggleLookDownWayCivil Rights

I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.

Michel Faber

FaithPeopleOutGetWhoRespectful

I find it hard to write in the first person.

Michiko Kakutani

FindPersonWriteFirstHard

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

Michael Strahan

HomeSportsGreatTeamSelfishYou

I traveled to Ireland to research 'Sandcastles,' to visit the coastline where my ancestors looked toward America, the tiny town they once loved so much, and the docks from which they sailed toward their dreams of building a better life for their family. The answers I found on that journey are woven through the novel.

Luanne Rice

LifeFamilyDreamsJourneyResearch

I really do try not to emote. I don't like seeing it on documentaries - it seems a bit unprofessional. I also need to be human being and be a kind of sympathetic presence for the contributors I'm with, so there' a line you have to walk.

Louis Theroux

WalkYouSeeingKindTryNeed

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

Don Johnson

RelationshipResponsibilityDayI Can

I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.

David Slade

LearnDoingSameOverBeingBecause

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

Christian Marclay

GoodInterestingSomeoneYouWill

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