Daniel Smythe Smith Quotes

Watch over Honoria, will you? See she doesn't marry an idiot. (Daniel Smythe-Smith) ~ Julia Quinn

you may tell your husband that if he so much as touches a hair on my fiancés head, I shall personally see to it that his liver is extracted through his mouth. ~ Julia Quinn

Help me. Please?"
She gave him an abashed nod (but not nearly so
abashed as she ought) and turned to Harriet. "I think that Lord Winstead refers to the rhyming qualities of the title." Harriet blinked a few times. "It doesn't rhyme."
"Oh, for heaven's sake," Elizabeth burst out. " Finstead Winstead?"
Harriet's gasp very nearly sucked the air from the room. "I never noticed!" she exclaimed.
"Obviously," her sister drawled.
"I must have been thinking about you when I wrote
the play," Harriet said to Daniel. From her expression, he gathered he was meant to feel flattered, so he tried to smile. ~ Julia Quinn

Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower. ~ Julia Quinn

The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite
certain it would take a full twelve months for her ears to
recover. ~ Julia Quinn

Honoria Smythe-Smith," Sarah said, positively grinning, "I am
so proud of you."
"I would ask why," Honoria replied warily, "but I'm not sure I
want to know the answer ~ Julia Quinn

He didn't know if there was a word to describe what he felt in that moment, how he saw the lines of his own heart when her eyes met his. ~ Julia Quinn

We all want to believe that we can do many things at once and that our attention is infinite, but this is a persistent myth. ~ Daniel J. Levitin

Thus far, the best that could be said for the day was that it was half over. ~ Daniel Polansky

It is true that private friends have sometimes, after listening to my effusions, gone the length of remarking, "Really, Smith, that's not half bad!" or, "You take my advice, old boy, and send that to some magazine!" but I have never on these occasions had the moral courage to inform my adviser that the article in question had been sent to well-nigh every publisher in London, and had come back again with a rapidity and precision which spoke well for the efficiency of our postal arrangements. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived. ~ Wilbur Smith

Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions ~ Susan Smith

Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we're not so happy. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show. ~ Michael W. Smith

Don't learn safety by accident. ~ Jerry Smith

In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie [Smith] once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home [laughs]. ~ Dustin Hoffman

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. ~ Daniel M. Gilbert

But I can't see how anyone could believe that you killed the bear with a pitchfork,' I said.
'I didn't. I only wounded it - badly, I think, but not enough to put it out of action. It came blundering towards me, I stepped aside and it crashed head-first into the river - I could hear it threshing about in the darkness. I picked up a big stone - poor brute, I hated to do it but I had to finish it off. It gave just one groan as the stone hit it and then went down. I held the lantern high; I could see the bubbles coming up. And then I saw the dark bulk of it under the water, being carried along by the current.'
'But you didn't have a lantern,' I said.
'He didn't have a bear,' said Topaz. ~ Dodie Smith

Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? ~ Patti Smith

Logan followed my gaze. "I wonder if there'll be stars where I'm going."
"If there aren't now, there will be once you show up. ~ Jeri Smith-Ready

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives. ~ Logan Pearsall 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

My mind begs for you in the soft, secret, silent places of the night ... I thirst for you and without you my soul is a desert. I thought when I first met you, first saw you, that I loved you more than any woman had ever loved a man, but now I know the feeling only grows within me. You are the song I sing each day, each moment, each second. You are the melody of my life ... ~ Gloria Smith

People who work in offices are crazy, they create an environment they hate, write rules they want to break, cast each other in roles they despise. It's like they're sixth formers in an end of term drama acting out the agony of everything they fear most in their life but they forget to end the play. ~ Helen Smith

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it. ~ Al Smith

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones' (aka Amiri Baraka's) play Dutchman. You'd better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn't make music they might murder you. One would be hard pressed to find another group of people on this planet whose music is a surrogate for murder. One would be hard pressed to another group of people on this planet whose life is a proxy for death. ~ Frank B. Wilderson III

I do call upon a little Fish Mooney energy sometimes, believe it or not. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled in the arts. So that recognition I credit for my growing interest in art that continued to evolve later on. ~ Paul Smith

Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around. ~ Daniel Wallace

You'll only beat your fears once you get to the point where you care more about your purpose than what people think of you. ~ Adam Kirk Smith

Charlie and Daniel think money and happiness are not related. They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to a body. To a mind. ~ Nicola Yoon

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is. ~ Daniel Craig

Thus I liv'd mighty comfortably, my Mind being entirely composed by resigning to the Will of God, and throwing my self wholly upon the Disposal of his Providence. This made my Life better than sociable, for when I began to regret the want of Conversation, I would ask my self whether thus conversing mutually with my own Thoughts, and, as I hope I may say, with even God himself by Ejaculations, was not better than the utmost Enjoyment of humane Society in the World. ~ Daniel Defoe

What I fail to understand is how a civilized world that claims to be so appalled by such brutality can simply turn its back on the victims. ~ Daniel Kalla