Stevie Smith quote: "I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,/ And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner./ Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat,/ I'll stay with the girls who are happy and fat."

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off...
STEVIE SMITH

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by...
STEVIE SMITH

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
STEVIE SMITH

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet i...
STEVIE SMITH

Bad women poets are better characters, they seldom... get drunk... go to prison... shoot the pianist...
STEVIE SMITH

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, a...
STEVIE SMITH

Not Waving but Drowning.
STEVIE SMITH

The Englishwoman is so refined/ She has no bosom and no behind.
STEVIE SMITH

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will jus...
STEVIE SMITH

I wish I had something exciting to tell you, but if I won $140,000, my share would be 70 (thousand)....
STEVIE SMITH

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
STEVIE SMITH

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
STEVIE SMITH

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing,
I wish I was more cheerful, it is m...
STEVIE SMITH

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,
Sharp Roman road to Paradise,
Come eat me up, I'll pay thy to...
STEVIE SMITH

Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the f...
STEVIE SMITH

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
STEVIE SMITH

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am i...
STEVIE SMITH

It is the privilege of the rich
To waste the time of the poor
To water with tears in secre...
STEVIE SMITH

Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end den...
STEVIE SMITH

Love me, Love me, I cried to the rocks and the trees, And Love me, they cried again, but it was only...
STEVIE SMITH

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
STEVIE SMITH

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a ...
STEVIE WONDER

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a goo...
STEVIE NICKS

I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, ...
STEVIE NICKS

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.
STEVIE NICKS

Of course I read Braille, yes.
STEVIE WONDER

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
STEVIE WONDER

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
STEVIE WONDER

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
STEVIE WONDER

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I we...
STEVIE WONDER

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me ...
STEVIE WONDER

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigot...
STEVIE WONDER

I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because ...
STEVIE WONDER

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
STEVIE WONDER

Minds ripen at very different ages.
STEVIE WONDER

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writi...
STEVIE WONDER

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, ...
STEVIE WONDER

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize th...
STEVIE WONDER

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thoug...
STEVIE WONDER

When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious,...
STEVIE WONDER

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry ab...
STEVIE WONDER

The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?
STEVIE WONDER

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
STEVIE WONDER

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.
STEVIE WONDER

I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.
STEVIE WONDER

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us cele...
STEVIE WONDER

Let us come together before we're annihilated.
STEVIE WONDER

I am not a normal man.
STEVIE WONDER

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
STEVIE WONDER

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
STEVIE WONDER

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
STEVIE WONDER

If you don't ask, you don't get.
STEVIE WONDER

Time is long but life is short.
STEVIE WONDER

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, th...
STEVIE WONDER

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot...
STEVIE NICKS

When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard n...
STEVIE NICKS

I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist.
STEVIE JACKSON

People can misconstrue closeness for love.
STEVIE WONDER

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to...
STEVIE NICKS

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him perm...
STEVIE NICKS

I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differ...
STEVIE WONDER

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.
STEVIE JACKSON

If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you ar...
STEVIE NICKS

But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't ...
STEVIE NICKS

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it'...
STEVIE NICKS

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I neve...
STEVIE NICKS

By the time I was five, I was a little diva.
STEVIE NICKS

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn...
STEVIE WONDER

Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the f...
STEVIE WONDER

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
STEVIE WONDER

A friend had a couple of pairs made up for me, ... I think the album is coming out.
STEVIE WONDER

You should definitely choose this as a profession.
STEVIE WONDER

This song helped me deal with it,
STEVIE WONDER

Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they...
STEVIE WONDER

I don't know if they provide inspiration,
STEVIE WONDER

Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.
STEVIE WONDER

It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done a...
STEVIE WONDER

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for wha...
STEVIE WONDER

We must begin now to make the public aware that this is an important democratic right we must protec...
STEVIE WONDER

I know! I know! But it's really coming out. They say they want it out for September 20th, I say the ...
STEVIE WONDER

What I like so much about Dennis is that he knows all the scuttlebutt that's going on around our spo...
STEVIE WONDER

The feeling of handing over the masters is you've done you're part and you're excited it's complete,
STEVIE WONDER

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the s...
STEVIE WONDER

I'm a married man, I understand,
STEVIE WONDER

Little Stevie Wonder/The 12 Year Old Genius.
STEVIE WONDER

My Old Kentucky Home.
STEVIE WONDER

We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible thi...
STEVIE WONDER

This was great. Let's do it again, soon.
STEVIE WONDER

[Franklin received the Lena Horne Award for outstanding career achievements and gave two rousing per...
STEVIE WONDER

In a time where racism was at a premium high,
STEVIE WONDER

If you don't ask, you don't get.
STEVIE WONDER

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
STEVIE WONDER

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we ha...
STEVIE NICKS

I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way...
STEVIE WONDER

When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the wri...
STEVIE NICKS

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for ...
STEVIE NICKS

I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, ...
STEVIE NICKS

I'm still experimenting.
STEVIE WONDER

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used ...
STEVIE NICKS

I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contempor...
STEVIE WONDER

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opene...
STEVIE NICKS

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it ...
STEVIE JACKSON

Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want...
STEVIE NICKS

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love,
STEVIE WONDER

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always th...
STEVIE NICKS

The truly incredible thing is we're realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without...
STEVIE NICKS

Well, if the earthquake happens, I've got my steel-toed shoes and some rope, and we'll get down a mo...
STEVIE NICKS

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performa...
STEVIE NICKS

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrif...
STEVIE NICKS

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think...
STEVIE NICKS

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.
STEVIE NICKS

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, a...
STEVIE NICKS

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
STEVIE NICKS

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as...
STEVIE WONDER

So What the Fuss,
STEVIE WONDER

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews....
STEVIE NICKS

If we can get back to the great singer/songwriters, music will just improve overnight.
STEVIE NICKS

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I do...
STEVIE NICKS

All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good ...
STEVIE NICKS

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people t...
STEVIE NICKS

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to b...
STEVIE NICKS

When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not t...
STEVIE NICKS

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been p...
STEVIE NICKS

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them...
STEVIE NICKS

[With all the no-shows, it was up to an old vet to keep up the festivities. Aretha Franklin , on han...
STEVIE WONDER

Time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me, I know I could have loved you, but you would not l...
STEVIE NICKS

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, l...
STEVIE NICKS

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.
STEVIE WONDER

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I t...
STEVIE NICKS

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzwe...
STEVIE WONDER

I do feel that there's a need to have some love out there,
STEVIE WONDER

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
STEVIE WONDER

Love is only one fine star away.
STEVIE NICKS

Let us come together before we're annihilated.
STEVIE WONDER

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. ...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames....
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my nec...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make ...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

This has got to come to a screeching halt.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same ti...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, bec...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my ...
EMMITT SMITH

In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up i...
ZADIE SMITH

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH

When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
WILL SMITH

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
WILL SMITH

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
WILL SMITH

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly abo...
WILL SMITH

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and ...
WILL SMITH

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like ...
WILL SMITH

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell,...
WILL SMITH

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
WILL SMITH

I want the world to be better because I was here.
WILL SMITH

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
WILL SMITH

Life is lived on the edge.
WILL SMITH

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who d...
WILL SMITH

The first step is you have to say that you can.
WILL SMITH

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organ...
ZADIE SMITH

Don't confuse honours with achievement.
ZADIE SMITH

If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did,...
ZADIE SMITH

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
ZADIE SMITH

I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fonde...
ZADIE SMITH

There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really pecu...
ZADIE SMITH

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everythin...
ZADIE SMITH

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautio...
ZADIE SMITH

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simpl...
ZADIE SMITH

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups m...
ZADIE SMITH

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found ...
ZADIE SMITH

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of bein...
ZADIE SMITH

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong s...
ZADIE SMITH

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it....
ZADIE SMITH

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equa...
ZADIE SMITH

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist...
ZADIE SMITH

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ...
ZADIE SMITH

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
ZADIE SMITH

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.
YEARDLEY SMITH

A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
YEARDLEY SMITH

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
YEARDLEY SMITH

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sport...
YEARDLEY SMITH

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
YEARDLEY SMITH

My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband...
TASHA SMITH

I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist help...
TASHA SMITH

I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who w...
TASHA SMITH

We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being h...
TASHA SMITH

Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't wan...
TASHA SMITH

I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a...
TASHA SMITH

Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work ...
TASHA SMITH

When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within t...
TASHA SMITH

I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great opti...
TASHA SMITH

There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of ...
TASHA SMITH

There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I c...
TASHA SMITH

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,/ And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner./ Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat,/ I'll stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

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I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,/ And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner./ Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat,/ I'll stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

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