White Teeth By Zadie Smith Quotes & Sayings

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time. — Zadie Smith

The true artist can only labor con amore. — Victor Hugo

People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way ... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less — Bill Walsh

I'm trying to give up SEXUAL INNUENDOS. But it's hard . . . SO HARD! — Laura Kaye

Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine. — Jen Kirkman

But like all things, the business has two sides. Clean white teeth are not always wise, now are they? Par exemplum: when I was in the Congo, the only way I could identify the nigger was by the whiteness of his teeth, if you see what I mean. Horrid business. Dark as buggery, it was. And they died because of it, you see? Poor bastards. Or rather I survived, to look at it in another way, do you see? — Zadie Smith

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind. — Gautama Buddha

Maybe nothing that happens upon stolen ground can expect a happy ending. — Zadie Smith

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets ... — Jimmy Buffett

But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance. — Zadie Smith

Different is not wrong. — Martin Firrell