J. L. B. Smith Quotes

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record.

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

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

Language changes very fast.

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.

You couldn't have human society without language.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

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.

Children are for people who can't have dogs.

You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

I refuse to believe that the processed beauty that I see around me is what I have to be.

I don't think people realize that what we eat and your stress levels impact the way that you look. Not just your body, but your face and your overall well-being.

Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live.

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

We had enough chances to win the game. In fact we did win it.

As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

Culture is not race and race is not culture.

In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

Ghouls weren't smart, but like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going.

In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.