Ali Smith Quotes

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

We understand more than we know.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

I'm looking for a hard-headed woman, One who will make me do my best, And if I find my hard-headed woman, I know the rest of my life will be blessed

Now you know," I said lightly, and shrugged. "No one's ever loved anyone as much as I love you.

But – Michael, you said you didn’t know Oliver, and–” “I didn’t, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

I didn’t know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just said, "Wow

They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

It's hard for me to pry with people I know.

I said to myself, if I was in the race, I know I would have won.

You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid.

Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.