Mark E. Smith Quotes

The manners thing's got worse. People think they can just text you if they've got bad news for you. It's not on. And as for people taking pictures at gigs on their phones, that's just weird.

Mark E. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 5, 1957 - January 24, 2018

Topics

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Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Jim Rohn

SuccessDoingThingsSuccess IsWell

Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.

Jim Crace

HistoryLandscapeAlwaysToneBeen

I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

Jesmyn Ward

MenMeFreeColorThoughtOthers

I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and this warped view that everyone is as happy as a pig in garbage.

John Grant

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We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.

Andrew Heyward

TelevisionKindJustDealingWarp

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Sophocles

LifeMotherChildrenMother's Day

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Jules Verne

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Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.

Johnny Weir

BeautifulMeNobodySkatingEven

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

Diablo Cody

MyselfYouJeansSkinnyPriest

I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural time is up, writers actually do run out of material. To me it's black and white. When there's a song there's a song, when there's not there's not.

Brian Wilson

Black And WhiteTimeMeSongBelieve

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

Pierre Salinger

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I don't want to use the word 'instinct,' but when something good happens - something big or good in my life - I have this sensation that it was inevitable. Anything careerwise, 'Lord of the Rings,' 'Rudy,' or getting married. Which is weird, because you don't ever want to be ungrateful for what you have.

Sean Astin

LifeGoodWeirdMy LifeYouWant

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