Sydney Smith Quotes

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Sydney Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 3, 1771 - February 22, 1845

Topics

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If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord's will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been made.

Jerry Falwell

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

John Naisbitt

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I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Jeffrey Combs

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I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections, underpinnings... His job is to paint the entire picture and knows all the colors that have to be in it.

Ruby Dee

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I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

Miranda Cosgrove

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My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

Moby

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Louisa May Alcott

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Motherhood changed me completely.

Juhi Chawla

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Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

Joseph Brodsky

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Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.

Jonathan Anderson

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Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

Demetri Martin

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I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.

Christopher Guest

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