Robert Farrell Smith (Obert Skye) Quotes
There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
-
I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
-
I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
-
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
-
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
-
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
-
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
-
Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
-
I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
-
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
-
Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
-
I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
-
If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
-
Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
-
I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
-
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
-
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
-
Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
-
I love Columbus Circle. I rebelled against the construction for a while because I go back to the '70s. There was no Time Warner building. Now I've started to really like it.
-
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
-
Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.
-
When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
-
And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
-
There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.
