Emmitt Smith Quotes

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

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• I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • Age

• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Arts
  • Awards

• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Think
  • Single
  • Better

• Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Literature

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Place
  • Boston

• I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • More
  • Three
  • Days

• Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Parents
  • More
  • Shine

• If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Fun
  • Control
  • Find

• I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Medical
  • Ship
  • Physician

• If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Unique
  • Gender
  • Spectrum

• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Me
  • Like
  • General

• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Kind
  • Place
  • New

• Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Money
  • Business

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• You can't really explain why things happen.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Why

• There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• Sometimes it felt to him as though he’s spent most of his life traveling, and never quite got to anywhere that mattered. Then again, that might be as good a description of what life was supposed to be as anyone ever thought of. The only real destination was death, and our lives consisted of finding the most circuitous and pleasant path to get there.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Teenager

• Seattle's support system got me through those early, difficult years. It was a very funky, very friendly, very relaxed place that had it all for a writer.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Support

• Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

  

  Emmitt Smith
  • Life
  • Knowledge