Ethel Smyth Quotes

#1. I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

Mehmet Oz

#2. The beauty of souls is like the beauty of colours.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Ice Cube

#4. [On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners ...

Ethel Smyth

#5. Acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.

Ethel Smyth

#6. Stupidity is the prerogative of the wealthy. Pauper's field is crammed with smart guys.

Chandler Brossard

#7. Crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

Ethel Smyth

#8. If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed.

Ethel Smyth

#9. I'm on my time with everyone.

Kurt Cobain

#10. When I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

Ethel Smyth

#11. I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.

Ethel Smyth

#12. My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Ram Dass

#13. If you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

Ethel Smyth

#14. The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Tori Amos

#15. That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

Joe Mantegna

#16. I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.

Ethel Smyth

#17. There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.

Tom Holt

#18. HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.

Jeremy Piven

#19. The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

Ethel Smyth

#20. Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.

Bel Mooney

#21. No one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

Ethel Smyth

#22. The majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

Ethel Smyth

#23. Night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.

Ethel Smyth

#24. I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.

Ethel Smyth