J. L. B. Smith Quotes

She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.

People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

The keys to life are running and reading.

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

My excitement about my life and my future makes me happy, because I am a dreamer, and I always dream, no matter how many obstacles are in my way.

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

I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things.

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

The game women play is men.

There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

Be magic choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to believe. We are who we choose to be.

I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.

We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.