J. L. B. Smith Quotes

Love isn’t only passion and joy. It’s also sacrifice.

And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, I don't talk about God.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Vision gets the dreams started.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I love you and I'm here for you.

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

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

It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis!

I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.