Ian K. Smith Quotes

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

Ian K. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 15, 1969

Topics

HappinessThinkPleasureEngagement

I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.

Jessica Williams

WomenThinkInterestingProfound

It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.

Jennifer Egan

WorkLiveMeWinBookImpossible

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

AmericanHorseCinemaBigMovie

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.

Robert A. Dahl

HistoryPeopleDemocracyConfusion

In Los Angeles, half of all smog from sulfur dioxide comes in from ships.

Rose George

Los AngelesHalfShipsLosAngeles

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.

Michelle Malkin

PowerGovernmentSupportTeamOffice

I was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?'

Judy Sheindlin

MeThinkJudgeDoingYouTelevision

I think it is not easy to impress a girl, especially with the looks that I have. It is quite tough.

Dhanush

GirlToughThinkEasyLooksImpress

When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

Christian Kane

GreatBeginningWordsMindStart

Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.

Alissa Quart

PoetryGoPersonalMindsTechnical

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

Wolfgang Puck

FoodFancyIngredientsItalian Food

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Sydney J. Harris

BestPracticeSometimesWayIdea

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