"I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school."
-Arthur Smith
TeacherView Quote
"Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.“
-Arthur Smith
posted in Experience
Other Quotes by Arthur Smith
Discover more inspiring quotes by Arthur Smith
"It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance."
-Arthur Smith
FamousView Quote
"Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography."
-Arthur Smith
TravelView Quote
"Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'"
-Arthur Smith
TravelView Quote
"Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose."
-Arthur Smith
TravelView Quote
"The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km."
-Arthur Smith
RomanticView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."
-Soren Kierkegaard
ExperienceView Quote
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
-Khalil Gibran
ExperienceView Quote
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
-Emily Dickinson
ExperienceView Quote
"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't."
-Pete Seeger
ExperienceView Quote
"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."
-Bill Watterson
ExperienceView Quote
"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
-George Washington
ExperienceView Quote