Shel Silverstein Quotes

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

Shel Silverstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleIdeasReadingYouMeeting

Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions.

Johannes Stark

PositiveBeginningChemicalElements

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

John Heywood

ManHappyLossWealthDirtShirt

I'm drawn to roles where someone has to struggle or fight.

Mia Goth

StruggleFightSomeoneWhereRoles

Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.

Shiv Nadar

EducationTimeBudgetLongCountry

Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.

Robert Englund

TravelDeathMindMeYouBack

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

Rita Wilson

LiveHappyMeBe HappyStageGoing

What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

Mary Barra

LifeJobRestOwnershipYouSay

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

Michael Moore

LifeBuildingConfusedMy LifeLine

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Jean Anouilh

OnlyImmorality

I really believe in the power of the individual to make change, and our family is a real collection of individuals.

Christie Brinkley

FamilyChangePowerBelieveReal

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

William Graham Sumner

ManControlFreeI CanUnderstand

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

Phyllis Schlafly

AbortionWhateverEraMeansFunding

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