Betty Smith Quotes

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Betty Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Robert Grosseteste

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Every bit of knowledge we have demonstrates that there is a complete correlation between playing sports and success and potential for success. Playing sports is good for you physically, mentally, spiritually, psychologically.

John Skipper

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Many of life's problems and sorrows are inevitable, but feeling sorry for yourself is a choice.

Amy Morin

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On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

Tom Holland

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Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.

Rose George

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The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

Joshua Ferris

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Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

Chris Matthews

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There's not a day that goes by where I don't think, 'Oh, I'm a lucky pup.'

Brad Garrett

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We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

Piet Mondrian

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People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

Paul Theroux

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Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.

Tink

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