Alexander Smith Quotes

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

Alexander Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: December 31, 1830 - January 5, 1867

Topics

LifeTodayTomorrowUnexpectedYou

I worked on 'Happy-Go-Lucky' for seven-and-a-half months, and I'm in it for two minutes - largely because Sally Hawkins turned left instead of right.

Andrea Riseborough

RightTwoLeftBecauseMinutes

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

Robert Nozick

DepressionChildDriveParentGuilty

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

Amy Grant

CoolMomGameGiftPlayChristmas

The president is a president for all Singaporeans. Not only for those who have voted for me, but even for those who have not voted for me.

Tony Tan

MePresidentOnlyWhoEvenThose

I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.

Rupert Everett

ThinkTryAdventurousEverything

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

Mary Kom

LifeWorkFamilyHard WorkMoney

I don't spend a lot of time in the mirror.

Julia Roberts

TimeMirrorLotSpend

What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director's interests and the actors' interests are aligned. No one makes money unless the movie works, and that informs every creative decision.

Jason Blum

LoveDecisionMoneyCreativeMovies

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Joseph Heller

LiteratureEnjoyEverythingKnewHe

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

Jonathan Krohn

PeopleAmericanWantUnderstand

Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.

Jonathan Miller

LifePicturesWantWaySeeBring

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

Conrad Veidt

DayMeReadingBackGardenDown

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