Deborah Smith Quotes

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

Deborah Smith

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• You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Free

• I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Fun
  • Best
  • Baseball

• I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Courage

• I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Interesting

• The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Challenges
  • Situation

• I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Feel
  • Say
  • I Can

• In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Computer
  • Data
  • Circles

• Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Comedy
  • Reason
  • Sick

• That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Powerful
  • Trump
  • Boss

• I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.

  

  Yuna
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Inspiration

• I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Kids
  • Simple
  • First

• I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• I'm really a normal person.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Person
  • Really
  • Normal

• There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Good
  • Freedom

• A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?" Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the bandage. "Man, you would be so embarrassed if I said it was something else." Michael looked blank. "I'm a girl, Michael, it could have been all natural, you know. Tampons?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Wrist

• You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Book
  • Interesting
  • Sometimes

• A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

  

  Estelle
  • Work
  • Appropriate
  • Scarves

• But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heaven
  • Sorrow
  • Glory

• No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Smile
  • Sorrow
  • Sadness

• I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the time to dwell on whatever it is that you're writing about...you can be celebrating anger, you can be celebrating sorrow... you are spending the time to focus and observe and try to understand the various parts of being human.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Focus

• Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

  

  Deborah Smith
  • Sorrow
  • Seriously
  • Leaves