J. L. B. Smith Quotes

Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

Put it back in the horse!

In order to win, you have to be aggressive - with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you don't have to be stupid about it.

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.

I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.

I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

There is plenty of work for love to do.

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?

Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.

Consistency shows value. It breeds trust. You know that I'm going to show up every week.

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'

[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.

If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.

If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

Women need to attack those negative voices they have in their head.

The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.

In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.

would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

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