William Jay Smith Quotes

I have always used a great variety of verse forms, especially in my poetry for children. I believe that poetry begins in childhood and that a poet who can remember his own childhood exactly can, and should, communicate to children.

William Jay Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenGreatChildhoodPoetryPoet

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

John Hawkes

ArtEndBetterPictureYouMuseum

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

Robert M. Gates

YouGoKnowSaidSayOld

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.

Stephen Daldry

GreatFunPeopleStartTalkingYou

How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

Stephen Covey

GodOpportunityJusticeWorldYou

Most business problems, you will have an intuitive idea on what to do.

Soren Skou

BusinessProblemsYouWillIdea

The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.

Simon Mainwaring

Social MediaWorldMediaWillBecome

Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development.

Torsten Wiesel

LifeExperienceEnvironmentalEarly

Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a minibar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak.

Mike Huckabee

GodNightHelpNowSteakMiddle

You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

Michelle Kwan

MistakesBetterWishYouFallSay

Sports is expensive, and you have to find a way to pay for it.

Mirai Nagasu

SportsYouFindWayPayExpensive

The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.

Louis Armstrong

TimeFirst TimeFirstOverGoose

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

Julia Stiles

MyselfIdeasLoseSometimesAbstract

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