Al Smith Quotes

You know, Alexia started, “I will be deeply disappointed if the apocalypse starts in Portsmouth.

There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

We all have so much more power to make our dreams a reality - and love life along the way - than we think we do!

I feel like I'm making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself.

With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.

People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.

I love meeting new people I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I don't know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do.

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.

Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2, 200 songs. I was amazed.

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.

It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

I really don't follow a strict diet I just watch my fat intake and stay away from fried foods.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'