J. L. B. Smith Quotes

The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

My best girl is dead.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Those who say I can, and those who say I can't - are both usually right

Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.

Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.

For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

You don't have to be alone to feel alone.

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

I'm far, far, far from that. But of course, that's one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if - you know, in the characters that you're playing, even if you don't.

You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

Not only does he have the NFC East record for touchdowns, but also the team record.

I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

If I saved all the money I spent on beer, I'd spend it on beer.

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.

If you have complete control over the damned thing, you're not going fast enough.