L. M. Boyd Quotes

The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.

The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

Hit the 'delete' button when you have unrighteous thoughts.

There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.

The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.

The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.

Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

I did Noise Music because I genuinely liked noise... But a lot of people didn't. At my concerts, people smashed beer glasses in my face.

Shakira's music isn't my cup of tea, but the way she moves her hips reminds me of the feeling you get when you climb the gym pole.

Nothing is indeed "true."

Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.

Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.

Never underestimate a dumb question.

I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

You're always first when no one's on your side.

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology.

I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

A character is as much about what you do as what you say.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

Its funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. Its no coincidence these guys get in and get out.

I like to just hang out. My friends dont like to do that, but I do. Because, a lot of times Im busy, and I just kind of like to get a chance to just hang out.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

If you're more than three feet away from a housefly, it can't see you.

The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands.

Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.

The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice.

I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies.

I let people off the hook too easily.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.