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
  • You
  • Way
  • 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

• Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Up
  • Mind

• I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

  

  Norman Lear
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership
  • Morality

• I would rather remember even if sometimes it can be very painful.

  

  Giovanni Morassutti
  • Painful
  • Remembering

• Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.

  

  Charles Lapworth
  • Science
  • Mean
  • Natural

• Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether its terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • World
  • Feels
  • Financial

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

  

  Liz Smith