Robert Smith Quotes

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees

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• The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • You
  • Know
  • How

• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Band

• The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • You
  • Journalism

• The audience has always been my best director.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Best
  • Audience
  • Director

• May books spread the world over!

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • May
  • Books

• I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Just
  • Point
  • Almost

• Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

  

  Francine Busby
  • Business
  • Broken
  • System

• Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Responsibility
  • Justice
  • Cancer

• What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Smile

• It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Know
  • Easy

• Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Acting
  • Suits
  • Perfectly

• No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Study
  • Language
  • Purposes

• He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• After that, I was on the right track to the city centre, where there was enough light to distinguish people from letter boxes. The letter boxes, in my perhaps embittered view, had warmer personalities than the people.

  

  Clive James
  • People
  • Light
  • City

• Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. That's the end of the interview.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Art

• I've always considered myself a person of color.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Color

• Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?

  

  Kabir
  • God
  • Long
  • Deep

• For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.

  

  Sophocles
  • Kindness
  • Memory
  • Benefits

• I am very comfortable saying what I believe I can do, being very specific about how we will do it, how we will pay for it, and having people know that I want them to hold me accountable.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Accountable

• I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Up
  • Important
  • Peace

• I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees