Kate Smith Quotes

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

Kate Smith

• Chance
• First
• Second Chance

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Interesting
  • Taken
  • Regret

• If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Film
  • Try

• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Wish
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss

• The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • Money
  • Enjoy
  • Making Money

• I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Like
  • Take
  • Beast

• One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Christian
  • Values

• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Need

• I have fabulous children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Fabulous

• But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Family
  • Money

• When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Different
  • Everything
  • Economy

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Find
  • Piano

• Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
  • Spirit
  • Genius

• I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Long
  • Night
  • Me

• Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Islam

• I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Music
  • Love
  • Rice

• And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Competitive

• Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Kind
  • Leaving
  • Personal

• No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Know

• When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Chance
  • Look
  • Name

• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Passion
  • Reason

• There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Chance
  • First
  • Second Chance