J. L. B. Smith Quotes

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do.

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

I love you and I'm here for you.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

A $20 haircut hardly ever lasts longer than a $5 haircut.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

Vision gets the dreams started.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

As I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love.

I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.

New socialize by insulting each other, but don't really mean it. Woman socialize by complimenting each other but don't really mean it

I'm the glue that keeps it all together. I'm the nucleus of an entertainment family. My day-to-day is making decisions to keep life above water.

I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.