Betty Smith Quotes

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 15, 1896 - January 17, 1972

Topics

TimeYouSeeingLookEarthGlory

I can be like that: forgetting how hard it was to do something after I'm past it.

Andrea Seigel

PastI CanHardForgettingSomething

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

AgeQualityMeInterestingKindOwn

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

Tracy K. Smith

BrooklynKindRetreatWriter

My family are all mad. But I got a lot of strength from them.

Roisin Murphy

FamilyStrengthMadGotLotThem

Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a version of many years later as 'Valmont.'

Milos Forman

LiteratureYearsProfessorUsMilan

I am not here as my party's nominee. I am unique among the 100 senators in that regard.

Lisa Murkowski

I AmUniquePartyHereSenatorsAm

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.

Jason Statham

ChanceInsuranceYouPersonalMore

My political consultant said I'm the only client of his that he does not worry about.

Don Willett

PoliticalWorrySaidConsultantOnly

What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.

Dianna Agron

GreatYourselfWritingAttentionYou

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.

Chelsea Clinton

LifeMy LifePlannedExpectedPublic

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.

Cole Porter

DeliciousDelightful

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Alice Cary

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