J. L. B. Smith Quotes
Power from on high . . . It is God inserting into you divine activity with mightiness.
Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!
If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick.
Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.
The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.
A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.
Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
The theories of men changed from day to day. Much that is taught new will tomorrow be in the discard, but the word of the Lord will endure forever.
My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.
It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.
Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.
I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.
My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.'' And that really stuck with me.
I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.
If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
