J. L. B. Smith Quotes

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.

Do the uncomfortable and it will widen your circle of comfort.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.

You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.

Do you wanna do something fun? Wanna go to Taco Bell?

I can put my whole fist in my mouth! Wanna see?

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.

I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

I can conquer the world with one hand, as long as you are holding the other.

I have never known stage-fright at any time.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.

Children are for people who can't have dogs.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

I'm going to miss everybody but unfortunately... it's time to go

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

You couldn't have human society without language.

The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.

Language changes very fast.

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

I learn my songs by ear.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.