J. L. B. Smith Quotes

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first...being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go.

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.

Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what he will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing.

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

I'm tired of living in a police state.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

Never allow yourself to break, and always remain unbreakable.

The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

I'm no liar. I could have been wrong, but I ended up not being [wrong]. But I'm no liar.

I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record.

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

The Word of God will bring you into a wonderful place of rest in faith.

How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

What we are really lacking today is a real hatred of evil.