Robert Smith Quotes

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Fortune
  • Duration
  • Pays

• New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • New
  • Dead
  • Research

• Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Blind

• When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • High
  • Me

• Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Ecstasy

• And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • High
  • Health
  • Challenges

• Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
  • Ambition
  • Times
  • Often

• It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Law
  • Religion
  • Slavery

• Love is the one wild card.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Done
  • Party

• I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Political
  • Personalities

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Heart
  • For Him
  • Kill

• You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.

  

  Jack Black
  • Mind
  • You
  • Little

• I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Up

• I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors.

  

  Martin Landau
  • Good

• Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.

  

  The Weeknd
  • School
  • Insecurity

• I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • Time
  • School
  • Age

• People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.

  

  Charles Dance
  • People
  • School
  • Education

• I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • School
  • Makeup