B. Smith Quotes

On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

I put my soul into every book I write.

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.

Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?

I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more.

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.

I control every interaction with every human being I'm with. I can actually manage any situation with 98 percent of the people on Earth.

You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough.

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.

The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup.

It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.

I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

I want to represent possibilities.

I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.

I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to.

Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.

I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment problem?

Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.

Bouncing in the club where the heat is on, All night on the beach till the break of dawn