Alexander Smith Quotes

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Alexander Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HappyRememberNeverOnlyOnceWere

It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.

Jo Durie

LovePeopleMeLearnImportantNice

That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.

John Baldessari

FunnyMeWorldFeelUncomfortable

I'm not an instinctive actor.

John Thaw

ActorInstinctive

I thought that losing weight by following a strict diet will make me more flexible and feel more confident about my body. I have become so used to the routine now and have fallen in love with my body that I would want to follow it forever.

Amruta Khanvilkar

LoveLosingMeThoughtConfident

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

Martin Scorsese

SchoolParentsHouseGoBooksWere

I think it's quite normal for people to have love affairs.

Claire Tomalin

LovePeopleThinkNormalI Think

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Chuck Palahniuk

LifeMistakeTryingYouBirthWhole

No Gabonese must be left by the side of the road.

Ali Bongo Ondimba

RoadSideLeftMust

Gujarat under Narendra Modi has focused on good governance in the power sector and implemented long-term reforms as opposed to the short-term and anarchic methods adopted by Sheila Dikshit and Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi.

Piyush Goyal

GoodPowerFocusedLong-TermDelhi

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Peter Zumthor

RainLightSunBirdsBuildingYou

I dread to be compared to all these directors who have a lot of spontaneous emoting and swearing in their films - that is death; it's a cul-de-sac. It doesn't lift the material at all. It's just a cliched reproduction of what we think is normal behaviour.

Pawel Pawlikowski

DeathThinkLiftSpontaneousNormal

From when I was a kid, I was always very quiet within myself, I was never attention-hungry.

Thundercat

MyselfQuietNeverKidWithinVery

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