Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
-
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
-
Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
-
I didn't feel attractive in high school.
-
I like Liz Phair, but there were these stupid women reviewers who said she's surpassing the Stones. Dream on.
-
But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
-
The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
-
Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
-
Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
-
'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
-
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
-
My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
-
I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.
-
I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.
-
I love driving. Listen to some music.
-
I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.
-
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
-
Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.
-
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
-
I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.
-
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
-
I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.
-
It makes me remember what I have too often forgotten, and what my mother often told me when young - that our God is a prayer-hearing God.
-
God loves us, and the will of love is always blessing for its loved ones.
