J. J. C. Smart Quotes

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

You become an actor because you don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.

Well, I'm also like 23 and playing 16. So maybe when I'm 30 I'll be playing characters in their early 20s. I don't know.

I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison.

Focus your business on what you do best. Let everyone else worry about the rest.

There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb...suggests one day...for every kilometer run in anger.

My brother is my best friend.

You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

But I have to say, probably when I'm about 30 I'll be pretty, not settled, but happy with what I've accomplished so far. I'm happy where I am now.

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.

I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I'm not really looking to see if it's for television or film, because there are highly talented people in both mediums.

I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.

Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.

I do feel like I'm a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.

It's annoying when people tag my name in their conversation with someone else [on Twitter.]

Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining.

There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter.

Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.

And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.

Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.