J. L. B. Smith Quotes

There is plenty of work for love to do.

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

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

The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

Life is...the moments that take your breath away.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

I can never tell what I'm gonna wear. I kind of just put on whatever feels right. Sometimes that's Converse and a T-shirt, sometimes it's Givenchy heels and leather pants.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

An artist wears his work in place of wounds.

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

At the end of the day, it's, 'Can we contribute as a group?' There are things that are going to happen.

I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man.

I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

There's always an important person who helps support your interests and encourages you.

My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had.

God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

Saving lives, one day at a time, just like always

I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.

Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price.

If you want somethin', go get it. Period.

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.

Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.