L.J. Smith Quotes

Every man lives by exchanging.

For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.

I didn't know what Guess jeans were. I just shopped at Wal-Mart and Kmart and stuff like that.

The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.

I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

We are a blend of dust and divinity.

Living, it's awful for me.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in

Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.

I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it.

Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

A moment with Jesus changed everything.

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

In Christ we are given the courage and strength to change the world

Datin'is a lot like fishin'. Sometimes catch and release is the best method.

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.

This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.

If the show sucks, I ain't happy. If the show is damn good, I'm very happy.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

It's very expensive to be me.

I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.

Right now if you ask me Carmelo Anthony is GONE. He's going to L.A. to play w/Kobe Bryant.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!

If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

Love songs in particular are so compelling because love is probably the strongest emotion you can have, and I think it's relatable to absolutely everyone, whether it's unrequited love or love.