J. L. B. Smith Quotes

Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own soul.

Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.

I am a fan of a bright sock. They're bold.

I think expectations of Doctor Who should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better.

I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'

I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

I am a terrible sleeper.

It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.

I think there's a passion for God like never before

It's really interesting to go back to '93 or '94 and listen to that music, like the I'll Lead You Home record

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too

In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product.

Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies!

If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.

Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist.

I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!

Struggle isn't fun but it's an opportunity to be brave.

My father always said, 'It ain't bragging if it's true.'

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.