Gordon Smith Quotes

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.

Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.

When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.

Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.

I think I have over 60 apps on my iPhone. I use six.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

But nobody can run from their own demons.

Don't make the mistake of bringing your heart down here with you, there is no place for it in Furnace.

Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.

There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.

And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can.

Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.

One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.

Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.

He had always thought that hell would be hot. But here they were, right inside the mouth of it, and it was freezing.

You don't have to be perfect to be good. You can do bad things and still be a good person.

I guess a little bit hero is enough. A little bit hero is all anyone really needs to be.

This thing was what existed before life, before the first stars, before the big bang. It was the emptiness before the universe, and the emptiness that would follow.

Yeah, because you'll really be showing them, won't you. Talk about cutting up your wrists to spite your fate.

Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing.