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William Jay Smith Quotes

I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much.

William Jay Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Typewriter Used Because Well

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

Feel Person I Feel Very

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

Eating Pure France Middle Been Tour

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

Michael Douglas

World Believe Spirit I Believe Bring

One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.

People Growing Up You Growing Nice

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue.

Rosemary Mahoney

Time Money Experience New York Stop

I'm an optimist by nature.

Nature Optimist

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Future Hope Man Optimism Present

I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me.

Change Me Mom Hair Short Short Hair

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Delmore Schwartz

Writing Said Say Never Need Seen

I'm not one of those girls who gets with somebody for the jewelry.

Christina Milian

Jewelry Somebody Who Those Gets

A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.

Man Funeral Known Many His Works

I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food.

Portia de Rossi

Relationship Food Healthy Want Never

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