Arthur Smith Quotes

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

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• The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Compliment

• I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Kids
  • Passion
  • Fire

• My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Memories

• U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Intelligence
  • Well

• In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Pretty
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Time
  • Know
  • Trouble

• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Long
  • Business
  • Career

• English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Men
  • Trying
  • American

• I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Today
  • Girl

• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Know
  • Perfection

• Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Feel

• I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Work
  • Family
  • Taken

• The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Live
  • Art
  • Evil

• If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • House
  • Fantasy
  • Realism

• I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Never

• There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

  

  Bonnie Hunt

• Sometimes the person that is best for you is the person right under your nose. I wanted to have a girlfriend in high school, and I know I would have treated a girl well, but instead I was just friends with a lot of girls. They ended up telling me later on, 'We're so perfect together,' but at the time, I wasn't the cool-enough guy.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I'd read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, 'Please, don't hurt this guy.' That's the key to suspense. It's easy to disgust a reader. It's much harder to make them care.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Guy
  • Fear
  • Hurt

• You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Guy
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Guy