Michael W. Smith Quotes

We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date.

Michael W. Smith

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• I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Better
  • Excellence
  • Striving

• Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Work
  • Talk
  • Irony

• I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Family
  • Dog
  • Guitar

• Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • You
  • Lose

• No one is born hating others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Born
  • Others
  • Hating

• I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Music
  • Meditation
  • Shopping

• I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Degree

• I just love the culture of Melbourne.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Love
  • Culture
  • Just

• Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. How about the time you gave a large contribution to the Red Cross? Yes, that is no exception to the rule. You gave the Red Cross the donation because you wanted to lend a helping hand; you wanted to do a beautiful, unselfish, divine act.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Hand

• I wasn't opposed to the VCR. The MPAA tried to establish by law that the VCR was infringing on copyright. Then we would go to the Congress and get a copyright royalty fee put on all blank videocassettes and that would go back to the creators.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Law

• Laughing at mankind is rather weary rot, I think. We shall never meet with anyone nicer. Nature, whom I used to be keen on, is too unfair. She evokes plenty of high & exhausting feelings, and offers nothing in return.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Nature
  • High

• Choir of Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Choir of Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one's own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Power
  • Science
  • Energy

• Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

  

  Leslie Cockburn
  • Life
  • Light

• If anything, I'm to the left of Obama.

  

  Marine Le Pen

• There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.

  

  Barbara Bel Geddes
  • Age
  • Death
  • Born

• Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Powerful
  • Birth
  • Weak

• Since I'm on a tour bus, sometimes it's really hard for me to wash my face, so I always make sure I have those Neutrogena Make-up Remover Cleansing Towelettes. No matter what and no matter how long the days are, I always have to wash with those before bed and when I wake up.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Me
  • Always
  • Matter

• I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Successful
  • Shopping
  • Bigger

• We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date.

  

  Michael W. Smith