Phyllis Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

  • Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.

  • When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

  • Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.

  • Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

  • We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

  • You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

  • I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

  • There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

  • Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion