Benedict Smith Quotes

What I needed was a connection with someone. Someone real. I felt that need in the marrow of my bones, in my pancreas, in my kneecaps. I did not need an endless sea of flesh. What I needed was to be loved. ~ Benedict Smith

I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm. ~ Benedict Smith

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming. ~ Gordon Smith

A clear and unified voice. In that context, this business of being biracial, of being half black and half white, is awkward. ~ Zadie Smith

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin. ~ Judah Smith

Next he grabs a round yellow thing covered in small bumps. It looks like a strange fruit and I half expect him to squeeze it to produce juice. When it reaches shoulder height the small bumps explode, turning into razor-sharp spikes. I duck and roll in BK's direction to avoid getting impaled.
"What the hell?" I shout. "You could have warned me! This is the second time in less than five minutes that you've almost killed me. ~ Pittacus Lore

Stop thirsting for things that are bitter,
Go crazy here, here in these arms that are still
Wrapped around the absent shape of you,
Go crazy with me, thrash about in our bed
And weep and wail and call me by her name,
At least have the courage to let our hearts break together. ~ Patricia Smith

Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

What I got in life that can't be probated I reckon I'll have to take with me. Mostly that is my thankful recollections of all the folks who crossed my trail since I shed my first tears in the year of 1880. Sometimes I had to look hard to find God in them, but most times I found Him. Usually it turned out to be easier to find than I had figured," Sheriff Bud Smith. ~ James Hickey

I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started. ~ Cory Michael Smith

Way back when I was four, I became increasingly sickly and spiritless. My mother took me to the doctor, who poked and prodded and deliberated. In the end, he pronounced, "She's depressed." Depressed at four years old. Why? No one had an answer....I have long evaded the real reasons for my discontentment. I still can't tell what they are, precisely, but I feel their presence most acutely in moments like this one with my grandmother, imagining a day in a big-box store that had replaced an old farm. ~ Alisa Smith

They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with our names on it. Cool. ~ Brooke Smith

Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science. ~ Megan Smith

In the beginning was real time. A woman enters a garden that is bursting with color. She has no memory, only a burgeoning curiosity. She approaches the man. He is not curious. He stands before a tree. ~ Patti Smith

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something. ~ Elliott Smith

I'm not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. ~ William Robertson Smith

I BELIEVE I AM ALWAYS DIVINELY GUIDED. I BELIEVE I WILL ALWAYS TAKE THE RIGHT TURN IN THE ROAD. AND I BELIEVE GOD WILL ALWAYS MAKE A WAY WHERE THERE IS NO WAY.3 ~ Robert D. Smith

I've seen too much of what the spotlight can do to a person to ever crave it for myself. ~ Jacqueline E. Smith

We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power. ~ Chris Hedges

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school. ~ Dean Smith

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Oh well, this is only temporary. Everything will be better someday. I'll make it better. After all, I'm young yet. ~ Betty Smith

When it was done and he took the mess away to bury, I lay back and breathed deeply, doing my best to settle my boiling stomach.
"All right," he said, "that's that. Now it's time to go, if we're to reach Lumm by green-change." He whistled, and the dapple-gray trotted obediently up, head tossing.
I realized I ought to have been more observant about chances for escape, and I wondered if there were any chance of taking him by surprise now.
First to see if I could even stand. As he went about the chore of resaddling the horse, I eased myself to my feet. I took my time at it, too, not just because my ankle was still protesting its recent rebandaging; I wanted to seem as decrepit as possible. My head felt weirdly light when I made it to my feet, and I had to hang on to a branch of the oak--my foot simply wouldn't take any weight. As soon as I tried it, my middle turned to water and I groped for the branch again.
Which meant if I did try anything, it was going to have to be within reach of the horse. I watched for a moment as he lashed down the saddlebags then rammed the rapier into the saddle sheath. There was already that knife at his belt. This did not look promising, I thought, remembering all the lessons on close fighting that Khesot had drilled into us. If your opponent is better armed and has the longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep. Well, the fellow had to be tired if he'd sat up all night, I thought, ~ Sherwood Smith

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging! ~ Delia Smith

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. ~ Iain Duncan Smith

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer. ~ Adam Smith

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa. ~ Dirk Benedict

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be. ~ Maggie Smith

... each one of us will face a moment when eternity whispers into our hearts, This is your time. ~ Michael W. Smith

An infamous political prison required a revolution as much as a revolution required an infamous political prison. ~ Tom Rob Smith

Women need to attack those negative voices they have in their head. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

Catching a glimpse of her reflection in the mirror, she briefly wished once again that she was taller, sexier and bigger in the chest. Sighing, she reconciled herself with the knowledge that if she were, the world would never be able to live with her. ~ Pamela Murdaugh-Smith

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer. ~ Kiki Smith

No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by wearing them with your old college knapsack, in its nasty, nylon glory. ~ Russell Smith

The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. ~ Adam Smith

Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits. ~ Iain Duncan Smith

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you? ~ Jerry Smith

America can still point to individual rags-to-riches stories of self-made men and women who leapfrog to success. But for all the glitz of sudden stardom on American Idol, for all the hoop stars and gridiron heroes from the inner city, and for every surprise Wall Street billionaire, the unpleasant truth is that a typical child born at the bottom of the heap in America has far less chance of rising into the middle class or above than one born in France, Germany, or Scandinavia. In fact, one study found that it would take five or six generations, 125 to 150 years, for a child from America's poverty caste to rise to the middle of the middle class. ~ Hedrick Smith

You can't get better at things you never play. ~ Elliott Smith

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man's library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul. ~ Andrew Smith

The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a political movie from video on demand, remember that it is the Supreme Court's decision in 'Citizens United' that guarantees you the right to do so. ~ Bradley A. Smith

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due. ~ Kevin Smith

I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything. ~ Will Smith

The politics at Max's were very similar to high school, except the popular people were not the cheerleaders or football heroes and the prom queen would most certainly e a he, dressed as a she, knowing more about being a she than most she's. ~ Patti Smith

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories. ~ Anna Deavere Smith