Lee Smith Quotes

I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.

Lee Smith

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• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Face
  • Camera

• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Die
  • Heaven

• Parenting is tough.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Tough
  • Parenting

• The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Year
  • Months
  • Spend

• I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Light

• The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Love
  • Space
  • Ability

• Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • May
  • Power
  • Silence

• I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Perfect
  • For Her

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Proud
  • Always
  • Something

• Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

  

  Sam Harris
  • Science
  • Questions
  • Limit

• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Safety
  • Speed
  • Ice

• When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Born

• It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Photography

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• Most people who go into show business want to go into show business. I wanted to be Porky Pig. That was my goal in life when I was five, to which my mother said, you can't be Porky Pig. You're Jewish! I don't think she realized what I wanted to do with the pig...I didn't want to eat him, I wanted to voice him.

  

  Bob Bergen
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Goal

• One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

  

  Elmer Davis
  • Done
  • America
  • Sun

• So many of our goals were not met, in part because of really expert sabotage by the resistance. But it was also the fault of being overly focused on long-term projects that weren't bringing short-term relief.

  

  Wayne White
  • Resistance
  • Expert
  • Sabotage

• I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.

  

  Lee Smith
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Parents