J. L. B. Smith Quotes

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.

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

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

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

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having the benefits of the constitution and the writ of habeas corpus.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes!

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

A single soul is richer than all the worlds.

The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.