Corey Smith Quotes

I believe that most people aren't that different from one another. Although we might appear to be different on the surface, I think ultimately we all go through the same struggles. ~ Corey Smith

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them. ~ Corey Smith

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate. ~ Corey Smith

To live is to struggle and to struggle is to grow. ~ Corey Smith

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to. ~ Corey Smith

I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform. ~ Corey Smith

I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free. ~ Corey Smith

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously. ~ Corey Smith

I have never heard anyone say, 'Oh, ick! A horse! ~ Elinor Goulding Smith

Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. To the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful. ~ C.S. Lewis

Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard. ~ Maggie Smith

The fact is that I loved being in England. ~ Martin Cruz Smith

When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain. ~ Thomas Malthus

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day. ~ L. Neil 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

Grandma "It'll keep you from going completely nuts someday and killing us all."
Solomon "Is that what you think's going to happen, that I"m going to snap and kill you?"
Grandma "Not me you won't. I keep mace in my purse. ~ John Corey Whaley

What an awesome privilege for some, looking upon a human body that houses the forbidden mystery of death. ~ Mark Smith

We don't deserve our job. Period. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

Love is a funny thing; there's the kind that's like you're five and you're looking up at your Mum's face as she reads you a bedtime story.

Then there's the kind that makes you nervous and twists in your stomach.

Then there's the kind that makes you feel like you're holding everything of worth in your hands. ~ L.C. Smith

She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our transgressions. It was far more likely that there would be love, falling like rain from above, changing the hearts of the wicked; transforming them ~ Alexander McCall Smith

I remember working on a show, and feeling so insecure about whether I looked attractive enough to do a love scene. It was weird because I couldn't understand why I wasn't feeling beautiful, even though I knew I was. ~ Tasha Smith

You say that about everything," I complained, trailing after him. "Everything is a long story, too long to tell me. I suppose after two hundred years, or whatever, things get a little convoluted, but can't you paraphrase? How do you know the Rectors?"
When we rounded the corner, it became apparent there wouldn't be time for any stories at all, paraphrased or not. Not because the gray clouds that were hanging so threateningly overhead had burst open, the way I was half expecting them to, but because the family we'd seen earlier, along with Mr. Smith and the people holding the clipboards, were climbing into their various vehicles in the parking lot right in front of us.
It shouldn't have been a big deal. We were just an ordinary young couple, taking a late afternoon stroll through the cemetery.
I'd forgotten that, due to the "vandalism" that had occurred there earlier in the week, the cemetery gates (which John had kicked apart in a fit of temper) had been ordered locked twenty-four hours a day by the chief of police.
So it kind of was a big deal.
Still, that didn't explain why one of the women-the grandmother, if her gray hair was any indication-took one look at my face, made the sign of the cross, cried, "Dios mio!" then passed out cold right in front of us. ~ Meg Cabot

I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man. ~ Wilbur Smith

You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

If you spend time wishing you had other players and scheming to get rid of them or not being loyal, either you end up hating them or they end up hating you, and that cannot be productive. ~ Sam Smith

People are so ... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood. ~ Elliott Smith

Some figment; I can still feel the remnants dripping out of me," I teased.
"You are a crude colonial," he remarked dryly. ~ Andrea Smith

Maybe memory is just electricity passing through us. Old voltage in the joints. ~ Dominic Smith

A 1945 film called Japan: Know Your Enemy, directed by Frank Capra (who directed several popular motion pictures during the 1930s and '40s, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life) ~ David Livingstone Smith

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage. ~ Maggie Smith

I didn't see Danny come in or run towards me. He was just suddenly there, pulling me up by my arm so hard that I gasped. I felt his grip on my skin long after he let go. We ran down the steps where Mom met us, coughing. She was followed by a thick black cloud of smoke. I had never felt smoke that hot in my life. I tasted ash when I breathed in.
"Go! Get out!" she choked, waving us towards the front door.
We ran out into the night in our pajamas.
"Run to Violet's!" Mom called behind us.

- The Stable House ~ Laura Smith

There is plenty of work for love to do. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so. ~ Richard Norton Smith

I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed. ~ Riley Smith

If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space. ~ Zadie Smith

We're all traitors now." "Ha!" the old lady said. "Only if we lose. ~ James S.A. Corey

Yeah, but what if we got separated?
Why would we?
But just, what if?
We won't ~ Jennifer E. Smith

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children. ~ Patti Smith

I have led a pretty colorful life. ~ Corey Feldman

13 Then if our hearts have been hardened, yea, if we have hardened our hearts against the word, insomuch that it has not been found in us, then will our state be awful, for then we shall be condemned. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives. ~ Will Smith

It's beautiful. Not a lie. But tornados were beautiful too. ~ Jeri Smith-Ready