Adam Smith Quotes
But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.
Quotes to Explore
-
An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
-
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
-
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
-
I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
-
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
-
Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
-
As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
-
I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
-
I love the French horn.
-
I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
-
The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
-
Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
-
Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.
-
We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
-
In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
-
I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.
-
It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
-
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
-
Look at the sky. Does its sapphire hue dim when you take a single breath? Are the stars drawn closer when you weep? The sky cannot be diminished so. Thus it is with the spirit: it is a thing without beginning or end.
-
My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
-
'What can I do to see Reality as it is?' The master smiled and said, 'I have good news and bad news for you, my friend.' 'What's the bad news?' 'There's nothing you can do to see - it is a gift.' 'And what's the good news?' 'There's nothing you can do to see - it is a gift.'
-
If you're going to build a business that's based on community, your business has to have community in it.
-
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
-
But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.
