William Jay Smith Quotes

A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble.

William Jay Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 22, 1918 - August 18, 2015

Topics

WillWayWeedAlwaysFreshThrough

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

Andrew Davies

LoveGreatJobMeNobodyWould

It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.

Michael Douglas

WomenRelationshipMeCareerMeet

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Steve Coogan

FunnyGreatSimpleSilencePeople

In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.

Sophie Hannah

PlantYouInformationChapterThree

I do try to be resentful, I really do, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

Robert Forster

MyselfTryBringJustReally

Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated.

Mary Kay Andrews

MyselfI AmOnlyMarriedJockAm

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Joyce Meyer

GoodGodPowerMeBetterDoing

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

Janice Dickinson

CameraYouSeenMoveAbleLike

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

Anthony Bourdain

FoodCultureYourselfPeopleChef

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

William Greider

DemocracyWorldOrderRepublicLess

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

William Greider

ValuesDoneWillOthersEveryone

There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.

Peter Bergen

HealthGunViolenceMatterMerit

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