J. L. B. Smith Quotes

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

I didnt know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

I believe that most people aren't that different from one another. Although we might appear to be different on the surface, I think ultimately we all go through the same struggles.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

Don't shoot fast, shoot good.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

New York is like that perfect lover that just won't commit but he's so good that you hang around anyway, NYC is dreamy!

I have such a strong acting background because I know what I'm looking for, I know what the needs are, and I know acting when I see it.

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

Life's too short for a funeral.

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.

Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

Time travel is such a magic concept.