J. L. B. Smith Quotes

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

What they are doing is disarming in the battle to stop illegal drugs and illegal aliens.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.

It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.

It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.

You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.

I'm more of a dog person. But I admire cats and their ability to take so much while giving so little.

To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.

New tech almost always looks dumb right before it completely changes your life.