Robert Farrell Smith (Obert Skye) Quotes

What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.

Robert Farrell Smith

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• I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Game
  • Giving
  • Best

• I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Fantasy

• I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Small
  • Theater
  • Wrote

• I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Happy

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• To secure peace is to prepare for war.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Prepare

• That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Changes
  • Ego
  • Self

• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Up
  • Discipline
  • New

• It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Graduation

• I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Concentration

• I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Long
  • Kind

• Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Make
  • Measure
  • Measurable

• To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • True
  • Hand
  • Virtue

• It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Parent

• Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • God
  • Country
  • Small

• If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Find

• She ain't into wine and rosesBeer just makes her turn up her nose andShe can't stand the thought of sipping champagneNo Cuervo gold margaritasJust ain't enough good burn in tequilaShe needs somethin' with a little more edgeAnd a little more painShe's my little whiskey girl, she's my little whiskey girlMy ragged on the edges girl, ah but I like em rough.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Back
  • Well
  • Satisfied

• Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.

  

  Catullus
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Care

• I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

  

  Edward Weston
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Perfect

• What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith