B. Smith Quotes

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.

I'm far, far, far from that. But of course, that's one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if - you know, in the characters that you're playing, even if you don't.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

You don't have to be alone to feel alone.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

God transforms us one area at a time.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

No furniture is so charming as books.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

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

People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

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

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard

I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.

Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.

A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.

The best piece of advice that I have ever received is from my mom. And she said, "Do you, boo boo." That is forever going to be the best advice.

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse.

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.

If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.

I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

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

I've always loved dinosaurs.

I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.