William Jay Smith Quotes

I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.

William Jay Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.

Jim Edgar

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I love heels! I especially like heels by Nicholas Kirkwood, Jimmy Choo and Moschino.

Joanne Froggatt

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The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

Joel Sternfeld

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I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.

John Catsimatidis

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It is hard to have a fashion business in any country, but even more difficult in Ireland.

John Rocha

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What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

Ron Rash

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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

Lord Byron

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When I do my own makeup, I keep things pretty simple.

Jordana Brewster

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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Christopher Hitchens

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I try to focus on the next week and the next game every time, focus on what I'm doing right now and just to continue to improve every single day. If I do that, I should have a good future.

Christian Pulisic

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I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

Christian Serratos

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