Michael W. Smith Quotes

I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

Michael W. Smith

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• I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • People
  • Up
  • Media

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Women
  • Truth

• Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Community
  • Independence
  • Big

• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Being
  • Most
  • Naked

• We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Good
  • City
  • Partner

• Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Travel

• There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Mysticism

• To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Work
  • Done
  • Know

• Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;Behind the clouds the sun is shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.

  

  Rain
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Fall

• Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge

• 'Don’t talk to me like you understand my sins.''Don’t talk to me like you know what I do and do not understand.' Alvin chuckled grimly. 'Oh, that mouth you’ve got.''You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card

• In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Done

• My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Life
  • Music

• Hairdressers are all-knowing. They're so wise.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Wise

• We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Society
  • Fire

• Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight...

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Miracle
  • Choosing

• I wear pink on Saturdays for breast cancer, and I wear blue on Sundays. I'm superstitious. At the Evian tournament in 2010, in which I came in second, I wore baby blue on a Sunday. And ever since then, I've worn it every Sunday. Puma sponsors me, so I wear all their outfits in bright colors. I wear matching hair ribbons, too.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • Hair
  • Baby
  • Cancer

• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • People
  • Great
  • Night

• I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

  

  Michael W. Smith