Jane Smiley Quotes

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 26, 1949

Topics

LifeBestDeathYouThings Happen

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

Jessie James Decker

WorkOpportunitiesNeverHardUp

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

Anatoly Karpov

FightFirstAgainstBeenExcellent

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

Mayim Bialik

WomenYouLookHardSeeThings

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Angela Davis

DangerousZooHumanBreakPopulation

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Angela Davis

LeadershipMyselfNeverIndividual

I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.

Jean-Marie Messier

I AmYouMeetWillMostEver

I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

Trevor Donovan

ColdNameCameraSayNervousMy Own

My father was in the army, and you know not to talk about things on the telephone that you wouldn't want to hear transmitted.

Tom Parker Bowles

FatherArmyYouKnowWantTalk

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

Diahann Carroll

FriendWordsKingAdviceMentorHe

I enjoyed playing everywhere, especially my mother's garden and my neighbor's. I loved my kindergarten. We sang songs; we played everywhere and ate lunch. I had a childhood that I would wish for anyone.

Clemantine Wamariya

MotherChildhoodLunchLovedWish

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

Artur Davis

LeadershipGreatAmericaWeekYou

I am still shy when I go to interviews.

Prabhas

I AmGoShyInterviewsStillAm

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