Elliot Smith Quotes

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith ... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody. ~ Emmy Rossum

screw the rules i have money ~ Elliot Smith

Playing it safe is the most popular way to fail. ~ Elliot Smith

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in. ~ Elliot Smith

Nobody broke your heart. You broke your own heart 'cause you can't finish what you start. ~ Elliot Smith

I'll fake it through the day somehow with Johnny Walker Red. ~ Elliot Smith

They want you or they don't ~ Elliot 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

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible. ~ Ali Smith

Explaining temptation by saying "God is testing me" or "Satan is attacking me" positions "me" either as the victim, if I am defeated, or the hero, if I prevail. But confessing that "My heart is desperately wicked" provides no such comforts. It heads off all attempts to shift blame, and cuts down all the pretensions of spiritual pride. ~ Colin S. Smith

I had not known, before us, that every vein in my body was capable of carrying light, like a river seen from a train makes a channel of sky etch itself deep into a landscape. I had not really known I could be so much more than myself. I had not known another body could do this to mine. ~ Ali Smith

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war. ~ W. Eugene Smith

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage. ~ Iain Duncan Smith

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

At least I never voted Republican. -Tony Kushner ~ Larry Smith

After a piece ran, a guy claimed I claimed I was from CNN. I never said that. But if you make a man comedically look like Hitler and it turns out that he is a retired lawyer with a lot of time on his hands, you're going to get sued. That's the lesson for today, children. STEVE ~ Chris Smith

I've always kinda wanted to work with Morgan Freeman, Tom Cruise, and people like that. Probably Will Smith, too. ~ Cayden Boyd

We currently enjoy the hospitality of the local smith, a gentleman named Heughan. ~ Diana Gabaldon

He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years. ~ Martin Cruz Smith

I hate when people act like music is nothing but wild creativity," Logan said. "That's bullshit. It's also about counting and measuring and calibrating. If you do it right." He passed his hand over my MP3 player sitting on the bed between us. It was playing Mozart to help my concentration. "And if you do it really right, no one can tell how hard it is for you. You can let them believe it's magic, because that means you must be magic. You're worth worshipping. ~ Jeri Smith-Ready

God is an exalted man. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith ... that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man ... ~ Joseph Fielding Smith

We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp. ~ Bubba Smith

He had not seen her since that afternoon. And with the miracle that is male compartmentalization he had barely thought of her either. ~ Zadie Smith

node communicates with the ~ James Smith

Oh, so now I'm actually being anatomically compared with a three-month-old? ~ Andrea Smith

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women." --Attributed to both Marion Smith and Nicole Hollander ~ Amanda Barton

Behind each thing a shadow lies;
Beauty hath e'er its cost:
Within the moonlight-flooded skies
How many stars are lost! ~ Clark Ashton Smith

Tattoos made my skin more me. ~ Larry Smith

Filth, filth, filth, from morning to night. I know they're poor but they could wash. Water is free and soap is cheap. Just look at that arm, nurse.'
The nurse looked and clucked in horror. Francie stood there with the hot flamepoints of shame burning her face. The doctor was a Harvard man, interning at the neighborhood hospital. Once a week, he was obliged to put in a few hours at one of the free clinics. He was going into a smart practice in Boston when his internship was over. Adopting the phraseology of the neighborhood, he referred to his Brooklyn internship as going through Purgatory, when he wrote to his socially prominent fiancee in Boston.
The nurse was as Williamsburg girl... The child of poor Polish immigrants, she had been ambitious, worked days in a sweatshop and gone to school at night. Somehow she had gotten her training... She didn't want anyone to know she had come from the slums.
After the doctor's outburst, Francie stood hanging her head. She was a dirty girl. That's what the doctor meant. He was talking more quietly now asking the nurse how that kind of people could survive; that it would be a better world if they were all sterilized and couldn't breed anymore. Did that mean he wanted her to die? Would he do something to make her die because her hands and arms were dirty from the mud pies?
She looked at the nurse... She thought the nurse might say something like:
Maybe this little girl's mother works and didn't have time to wash he ~ Betty Smith

That's perfect," he said. "I'm sorry about that. It's genetic, I think. My mother had exactly the same problem, and a cousin of hers too. We're allergic to raw onion. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

I told Missy [Elliot] I couldn't believe how much she has done as a woman in a male-led arena and that she's an inspiration to me. When I got into the lift back to my room to get changed and go home, I broke down in tears. ~ Amy Winehouse

Anxiety and panic happen to be mundane phenomena, i.e., even when they are caused by extraordinary things like war and rape, they tend to occur when things are ordinary and predictable and relatively stable, against a backdrop of normal, everyday experience. This, of course, is one of the features of anxiety and panic that make them suck so bad. ~ Daniel Smith

In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author himself. Entering the perimeters of the white arch, one was greeted by the sounds of bongos and acoustic guitars, protest singers, political arguments, activists leafleting, older chess players challenged by the young. This open atmosphere was something I had not experienced, simple freedom that did not seem to be oppressive to anyone. ~ Patti Smith Just Kids

- The earth hums?
- Of course it does. What a stupid question! Don't you hear it? ~ Jeff Smith

I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business. ~ Ozzie Smith

God is love"; He does not have love, as something added to Him, something that may or may not be present, that is capable of change, increase, or decrease. He is love; it is the way He is in His essential nature. I may tell you that I have a glass of water or a reservoir of water, but it is in an entirely different category to say that I am water! To have water means that my possession of it is subject to change whether by increase or decrease, but to be water means I am never subject to change because it is what I am! He is the definition of love; love is the way He is. Agape ~ Malcolm Smith

They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow. ~ Zadie Smith

What is the purpose and meaning and nature of sexual intercourse? It seems to me to be quite clear. It's for two things. It's for babies and it's for bonding. And that's what happens when you have sexual intercourse - you have babies and you bond. My view is, if you don't want to have babies and you don't want to bond, then you shouldn't be having sexual intercourse. ~ Janet E. Smith

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest.
Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people. ~ Adam Smith

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

Jeremy: "Who did it? Wait-you think I did. Don't you?"
Ash: "It did cross our minds at one point. Actually, it seemed to keep crossing them. Back and forth. Maybe we should put in a crosswalk. ~ L.J.Smith

Some knowledge is a fish," she muttered. "Some is a serpent. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts. ~ Gerrit Smith

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective. ~ John Smith

The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a world away from his own predicament: an anniversary party full of academics. ~ Zadie Smith

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home. ~ Huston Smith

Your life - your very existence - is a light! ~ Seth Adam Smith

Working with Will Smith was one of the highlights of my career. He is so talented and has a tremendous work ethic. We are still friends, and I reach out to him and his partner to pitch ideas. He loves my mother. In fact, my mother was his son Jaden's acting coach for the movie 'Pursuit of Happiness.' ~ Kim Fields

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin. ~ Elliott Smith

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day. ~ Yeardley Smith

IF EITHER OF THEM had felt tetchy, the concert put them both in a good mood. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Some things melt before they become memories. ~ Patti Smith