A.C.H. Smith Quotes

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

Oh, my bad ... I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot I only exist when you need me for something.

I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.

No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

I actually have OCD really bad, and it's getting a bit worse at the moment. I have to check taps... before I leave the house, to make sure I've checked everything in case it floods.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation; it’s God bringing people in.

It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.

I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it’s not separated.

My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won't have to use anything else.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

You can ask my wife about my stamina.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

The most important thing is team morale.

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.

Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.

Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks