Brent Smith Quotes

Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.

Brent Smith Shinedown

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• I don't really go out at all.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Go
  • Out

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Long
  • Hand
  • Like

• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Real
  • Theatre
  • Broadway

• The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Career
  • Dream

• It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• If you don't like me, it's your problem.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • You
  • Me
  • Problem

• In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Question
  • Hand
  • Theory

• I know there is a difference between adaption and evolution.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Evolution

• 'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Great
  • Children
  • Future

• I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

  

  Dudley Moore
  • Night
  • Meaningful

• I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • People
  • Art
  • Beach

• I know how fortunate I am and my family are to be healthy.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • Family

• I don't think I see the way bodies move in any special way. People say I do, but everybody moves. I don't see why all of a sudden I'm a specialist in the way bodies move.

  

  Claire Denis
  • People
  • Why

• It is important to let every employee know where he or she stands throughout his or her time in your business; I would suggest every quarter of the fiscal year. By being honest and open with each team member and their performance, you create value in their efforts.

  

  Clay Clark
  • Time
  • Important
  • She

• When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Believe
  • Crazy
  • Depression

• Composers, artists, actors, singers - all of them, I think, unconsciously learn from others. I'm sure it's not conscious, but they can't help it.

  

  Charlotte Rae
  • Help

• We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • Mind
  • Eyes
  • Brave

• The more conscious of God's presence the more I feel like being myself, the less conscious of His presence, the more I feel I need to prove myself.

  

  R. T. Kendall
  • God

• It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad; it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • Past
  • Opportunity
  • Mean

• A feeling of loss of control over your own life and a nagging feeling of “What am I missing?”

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Life
  • Control
  • Nagging

• I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Therapy
  • Figure
  • Contemplating

• For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Music
  • Stuff
  • Therapy

• Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.

  

  Brent Smith Shinedown
  • Therapy
  • Cheaper
  • Metaphors