Zadie Smith Quotes

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.

Zadie Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

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PoliticsPeopleOrganizationWorld

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

Jill Lepore

PeopleThinkBetterYouKnowWill

I'm fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.

John Barrasso

LiveBeautifulWorldPlacesWyoming

What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

Max von Sydow

PeopleInspireThinkThoughtHelp

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

Robert Morgan

PoetryImportantLittleTranslation

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Robert H. Schuller

MoneyProblemYouNeverAlwaysIdea

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

Sitting Bull

GreatManI AmRedMePlace

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

Robin Sloan

WeirdInterestingYouMoreLittle

I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you know?

Lisa Hanawalt

LoveBookYouKnowPlasticPieces

When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.

Jonathan Maberry

MeFriendsLongFirstGunsPretty

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

Claire Forlani

FirstGotSawDidMigraineAfter

I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque.

Peter Marino

ModernLikeMaterialsBaroqueReally

My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.

Nicolas Maduro

RiseWillWayEuropeFranceSure

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