B. Smith Quotes

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!

I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

My day job is making TV shows.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.

put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.

Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.

All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.

Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.

Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

I don't go to bars and stuff like I used to, but I live each day to make something.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

I am a human being. I am not an actor.

People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.

All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.