Liz Smith Quotes

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

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• I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Grow

• People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Think
  • Food

• I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Way
  • You
  • Same

• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Late

• Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Women
  • Sales
  • Most

• I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Eyes
  • Look
  • Blue

• The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Speak
  • Facts
  • Credit

• Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Think
  • Night
  • Quality

• The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Care

• I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Law
  • Laugh
  • Cut

• I think penguins are cute.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Cute

• I love playing to people and seeing them react.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Love
  • Seeing

• Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Good
  • Think
  • Discipline

• To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Period

• Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Men
  • Law
  • Eyes

• Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Personality

• I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Wall

• There are young people having babies every day that cannot possibly take care of them, and, as people who believe that every life is beautiful, we need to make them aware of another choice - to give that beautiful life up for adoption.

  

  John Schneider
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

  

  John Wesley
  • Fashion

• You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Freedom
  • Religion
  • Comic

• The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Fear
  • Role
  • Plays

• I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Music

• All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

  

  Liz Smith