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Elizabeth Joan Smith Quotes

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

Elizabeth Joan Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: January 5, 1928

Topics

Life Value Practice High Theory Put

I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

Appreciate Fact Won District Fully

I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington in Seattle and become an engineer. But by the time I was seventeen, I was ready to leave home, a decision my parents agreed to support if I could obtain a scholarship. MIT did not grant me one, but the University of Chicago did.

Robert Lucas, Jr.

Good Home Science Time Decision Me

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

Michael Emerson

Work Time Building Small Problems

I don't get cute, I get drop-dead gorgeous.

Cute Gorgeous Get

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

Fire Moving You Ahead Coach Ball

I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best friends is pretty consistently reviled by his girlfriends' parents!

Best Parents Friends Pretty Well

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Failure People You Choose High Like

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

Experience Words Me Understand Years

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.

Man Me Will Seems Be A Man Very

I feel kind of limited and locked into my body and brain - I'm not super into it all the time.

Time Brain Feel Body Kind I Feel

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

Struggle Financial Want More Make

Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.

Me Photographed Prefer

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