J. L. B. Smith Quotes
Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.
Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.
If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.
If you're not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal.
In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.
Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours.
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.
I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through.
Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.
There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.
I don't think it's necessary to go to any game to make a stand just because you are there. The stand is made from the heart, and you can do that in the grocery store.
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window
I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.
When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
I'm not just a black man, I'm a brotha. I love my people. When I'm on the air I am fully aware that I am not just representing myself but representing us.
God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.
If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.