L.J. Smith Quotes

The game cannot be won, only played.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.

The theories of men changed from day to day. Much that is taught new will tomorrow be in the discard, but the word of the Lord will endure forever.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

My God, don't shoot !

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

Christianity is not about not swearing. It’s not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it’s not about not at all. Christianity is about Jesus.

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.'' And that really stuck with me.

See the ridiculous in everything.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.

If I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.