L.J. Smith Quotes

I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!

I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.

Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me.

Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we put stuff out; we don't skip it. It's our big thing for March.

O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.

Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

Love isn’t only passion and joy. It’s also sacrifice.

When my husband of almost 20 years can’t take his eyes off me? That’s amazing. But the number one reason I go to the gym is because it keeps me sane; I can deal with whatever’s coming at me.

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.

When my husband of almost 20 years can't take his eyes off me? That's amazing.

One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

If I had my way, I'd wear jewelry, a great pair of heels and nothing else.

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

I'm the glue that keeps it all together. I'm the nucleus of an entertainment family. My day-to-day is making decisions to keep life above water.

I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.

As I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love.

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

When we met, I never thought in a million years that Will Smith and I would be together.

I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.