top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Being quotes
"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
Explore more quotes by Martin C. Smith
"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."
"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about."
"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right."
"I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans."
"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."
"But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off."
bottom of page