J. L. B. Smith Quotes

Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.

I think there's a lot more to pop than just sugarcoated indie pop. Maybe to me it's something that's accessible, catchy, something people can remember.

When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.

I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.

It's always a bit strange when you join a show in the second season.

I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.

I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.

A man's relationship with the Bible is an exact picture of His relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

Rights are subordinate to responsibilities.

A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth.

True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little.

Present fear is never as bad as later regret.

In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.

Endurance cannot be produced by determination alone; endurance is a product of physical exercise.

Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection.

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

If it's to be, it's up to me.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.

Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came out on the side of light more often than not.

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.

I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.