Richard Smalley Quotes

Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.

Richard Smalley

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• The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • You
  • More

• I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Real
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

  

  Vanity
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Jesus

• In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Opinion
  • Changes
  • Fix

• I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Always
  • Sister
  • Inside

• I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • True
  • Movie
  • Like

• I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

  

  Jackson Browne

• To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Mind

• The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Live
  • Children
  • Ghetto

• Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • Road

• Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

  

  Betty White
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • People
  • Together
  • Help

• Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Pirate

• If a band is really good and the chemistry is unique, it should continue. But I guess David is just very happy doing his solo career. He's got a different band every time he goes out.

  

  Chris Frantz Talking Heads
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

• I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Up
  • Remember

• I don't sing lead - I am not the lead singer - but I do sing some stuff sometimes.

  

  Billy Magnussen

• The first perk of theater is the girls.

  

  James Spader

• In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there is no doubt that coming generations will think that our form of world trade and distribution of the world's benefits were just as inconceivable and inhuman.

  

  Erik Dammann
  • Generation
  • Riches
  • Inhuman

• My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Father
  • Right
  • Said

• 'Pray, my dear,' quoth my mother, 'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?' - 'Good G-!' cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, - 'Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?'

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Boundaries

• I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • Power
  • Career
  • Political

• Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.

  

  Richard Smalley
  • Father
  • Enough
  • Suppose