J. L. B. Smith Quotes

A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

Amy Pond is, er...I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.

The fact that you've got zombies in this movie allows you to make slightly bolder choices tonally.

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

It's better to be prepared than to get ready.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

After all that has been said, the greatest and most important duty is to preach the Gospel

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna be

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?