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.'

Ali Smith

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GreatSkyMeTreesBackCountry

One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.

Jim Sasser

YouTableSeriousKnowPersonal

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Jerzy Kosinski

TimeTravelMeI CanCreateWhy

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

Stephenie Meyer

TimeYouLoseDownI CanAlways

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

Steven Soderbergh

YouSeeSomethingReadEitherWhile

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

Sting

FitnessDayRunThroughMilesUsed

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it.

Trick Daddy

LiveSeeTellI SeeLikeEnvision

'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

Ruth Rendell

FriendMeBookStoryBoyChimney

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.

Roxane Gay

GreatArtPeopleAppreciateI Can

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

Mike Mills

BelieveRealityIllusionFiction

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Lord Byron

WisdomTreasurePleasureOutMay

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

KingdomHonestHeCelestialEnter

Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we'd play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion.

Dickey Betts

MeNightWeekendPlayLivingNever

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