L.J. Smith Quotes

I had a very crazy aunt and uncle who we traded my brother Webster to for a Siamese cat. It was heaven to live with my aunt and uncle because you got spoiled to death.

When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words.

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

I refuse to believe that the processed beauty that I see around me is what I have to be.

I don't think people realize that what we eat and your stress levels impact the way that you look. Not just your body, but your face and your overall well-being.

Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live.

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

We had enough chances to win the game. In fact we did win it.

As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

Culture is not race and race is not culture.

In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

Ghouls weren't smart, but like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going.

In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.

You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

What they are doing is disarming in the battle to stop illegal drugs and illegal aliens.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.