Edmund Smith Quotes

Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.

Edmund Smith

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• We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Challenge

• Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Said
  • Ought

• My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And you know what? I have almost no pictures of the second one, because I put disposable cameras on the tables, because everyone said, "The best pictures are the most candid! The best pictures are the ones people just take!" So, I put disposable cameras on the tables, and guess what? There were so many kids there that those cameras were stomped on. I had so many pictures of the floor, of people's eyes, of someone's finger.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Kids
  • Eye

• Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Useful
  • My Mind
  • Starving

• We think of it as an extension of existing content efforts we have now. We didn't have a general way for people to push information to us that they didn't think was being represented in our search results.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Think
  • Content
  • Efforts

• Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Individual

• Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Bound
  • Tape
  • Skewered

• Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in, since I was part of the clique since it's inception.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Fit

• What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Thinking
  • Gone

• I think more people need to make out.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • People
  • Need
  • I Think

• Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Eyes
  • Face

• Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Nature
  • Cat
  • Strokes

• You are my heart, my head, my spine-you are the beat thumping through every line, and that’s why I write–it’s the only time we can be side by side.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Heart
  • Head
  • Spine

• All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

  

  William James
  • Ideals
  • Philosophic
  • Altars

• All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Forces
  • Victims
  • Pestilence

• “In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.”

  

  Anne Royall
  • Power
  • Priests
  • Aimed

• Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • God
  • Culture
  • Universe

• Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.

  

  Edmund Smith
  • Victims
  • Priests
  • Altars