Shel Silverstein Quotes

I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.

Shel Silverstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1930 - May 10, 1999

Topics

WorkTimeDanceMePlayImportant

Football players are creative when they're in the moment.

John David Washington

MomentFootballCreativePlayers

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Matthew McGrory

ScienceJusticePoliticalYes

Every mission accomplished.

Matthew B. Ridgway

MissionAccomplishedEvery

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

MorningMirrorMyselfBe StrongI Am

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Jeffrey Archer

TravelNowLeavingLandWithoutUp

I love Jerry Lewis. I loved Jim Carrey when I was younger, and Mike Myers and Phil Hartman, all the 'Saturday Night Live' people in the late '80s.

Simon Helberg

LoveLivePeopleNightLovedLate

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

Misty Copeland

TimeMyselfStepCapableStageOnly

There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross - but I happen to have loved the Four Tops most of all.

Jon Landau

StarsLovedHappenMotownFourMost

I listen to some Hank Williams before I go out. I tell some jokes. I have fun. I don't waste too much energy thinking about it - I like to save that all for the ring.

Dean Ambrose

FunHave FunEnergyThinkingGoOut

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

Christian Louboutin

LoveStyleProudWishShoeWould

Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system.

Conrad Black

SchoolTeachersSystemDestroyed

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

Colin Farrell

LifeSimpleManMindMeBetter

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