Stevie Smith Quotes

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

Stevie Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TodayTimeMeAliveWillRoom

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

John Buchan

HopeFishingCharmPursuitElusive

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

Jesse Jackson

TomorrowYouKnowNeedWhoHolds

There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.

Andrew Forrest

PoliticsNamePoorPoliticiansGet

Nothing - and, I repeat, nothing - can affect what you build with sheer hard work. You either wait for people to define your worth or you define it with your own actions. I believe in the latter.

Mawra Hocane

WorkHard WorkPeopleWaitBelieve

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

Matthew Lesko

SupportCountryWayShameBeenOur

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Angela Davis

WomenRelationshipMenSocietyYou

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

Michael Bergin

BecomeGoneManhattanModel

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

Stephen Kinzer

ExtinctionOffSomeManyTroubled

Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen.

Stephan Pastis

MeAheadScheduleWriteOverBig

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Simone Weil

CountryMoreSufferHerThanThose

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Tom Hopkins

I AmSucceedTryingI CanFailKeep

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

Tom Sizemore

DetroitKindViolentNeighbourhood

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