J. L. B. Smith Quotes

You want to be recognized for being popular but you also want to be recognized for being great.

I'm not anti-anything. I'm not anti-Jew or Gentile, I'm not anti-white, but I am pro-black. I am pro my people. And I love us so much that it gets on my nerves when we do stupid things.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

I'm a thousand times bigger on the inside than I am on the outside.

Every day be thankful for the nights that turn into mornings, friends that turn into family and dreams that turn into reality.

There are boundless possibilities for us if we dare to act in God and dare to believe!

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory.

People die . . . so love them every day. Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone. Love changes . . . but not the love you give. And if you love, you'll never be alone.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

I watch like, Steve Jobs interviews, I don't really watch TV. I stopped watching TV when I turned like ten because my parents were like, 'TV's really bad for you.'

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.

I'm very curious and being childlike is vital in our industry

People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.

Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I'm going to imprint myself on everything in this world.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.

Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow

If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.