Huston Smith Quotes

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

Huston Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: theologian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 31, 1919 - December 30, 2016

Topics

FaithGreatMyselfWorldHomework

I'm always going for truth and honesty.

Jill Soloway

HonestyTruthAlwaysGoing

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

Jello Biafra

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War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Jeannette Rankin

WarPossibleHumanEnemiesLarge

I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine.

Steve Jurvetson

DailyDrivingWantDrivenCommute

Everybody who's anybody has been competitive and over-sensitive and a bit silly. Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

Robbie Williams

MeJealousSillyLookCompetitive

I helped launch 'ET'... I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

Robin Leach

StartGrowBetterMove OnSeeMove

Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.

Robert Wilson

WorkMusicActingEverythingText

I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.

Ruth Rendell

PeopleThinkCarePaidLikeHappens

The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life.

Mike Nichols

LifeMomentPeopleLookingWish

I have done a Hamburger Helper commercial, a Hardees commercial, a McDonalds commercial. American Express commercial.

Luke Benward

AmericanDoneHamburgerCommercial

How does nature amplify the intelligence of groups? It forms swarms.

Louis B. Rosenberg

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I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

Joseph O'Neill

ManHappyCricketNeverWriteOut

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