Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 18, 1865 - March 2, 1946

Topics

WalkComeGutterStraightTowers

People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

John Lasseter

LifeGreatPeopleLittle ThingsGrow

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

Amy Winehouse

BelieveAmericaArtistEveryoneStar

We moved around so much when I was young. I was very shy, so shy that I would walk across the street if I saw someone I knew rather than deal with talking to them.

Amanda Foreman

WalkSomeoneTalkingYoungStreet

Infrastructures of power always inhabit the surface of the earth somehow, or the skies above the earth. They're material things, always, and even though the metaphors we use to describe them are often immaterial - for example, we might describe the Internet as the Cloud or cyberspace - those metaphors are wildly misleading.

Trevor Paglen

PowerInternetCloudEarthSkies

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.

Toni Collette

ActingWouldHad

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

Mary Barnett Gilson

MenFreeMindsMustMeansFew

I am such a great gamer that seven-year-olds kick my butt.

Michael Rooker

GreatI AmButtGamerKickAm

We're extremely excited about the assets that Yahoo has in the areas of Sports and Finance and Email and News. You match those up with AOL, and we've just made an exponential leap in capabilities here.

Lowell McAdam

SportsFinanceYouNewsLeapEmail

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.

Dimebag Darrell

MusicEndUnhappyBackNeverOpen

If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.

Diego Luna

ChangeRealityNeighborWillChanges

My strength, by default, is my size over corners and my hands, which I know is in the job description, but that really matters.

Devon Cajuste

StrengthJobHandsKnowOverSize

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

Denis Norden

WorkComedyYouWhyWholeOffer

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