L.J. Smith Quotes

We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.

It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

I want the real deal whatever that means and whatever it takes to get there so I've been exploring.

There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse

I'm scared of clowns.

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

It's better to forget than remember me and cry.

Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night.

At 3 years old, I was telling people that I was going to be a star. I never had a plan B. And I've never compromised my integrity to get what I have.

I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.

Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world.

I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

I feel like in order to challenge yourself you have to get out of and do things that feel wrong at first and find new things. It's important to look for those things.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.

Nothing is ever in such short supply at a race track as time. It doesn't seem to matter whether we are at the track for a race meeting or for testing - there is never enough time.

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

I'm pretty good at letting people do what they are good at, that's why they're experts.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

You should just do the right thing.

Praise behaviour that you want repeated

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

[People asked me] "Where is your million-dollar shirt?" I'm like, "It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on."

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.