Sam Quotes

Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

Animals are not here for our entertainment.

I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses or elephant abuse. I don't want to be in the same industry with these people.

Id rather be nauseous than tired, I think.

With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.

I was very concerned about helping animals improve their situations. But that was out of love. It wasn't political or out of a belief that animals had rights.

Mary had a crypto key, she kept it in escrow, and everything that Mary said, the Feds were sure to know.

I have a desire to help animals, the question of whether it makes financial sense, it's my money and I get to do what I want with it. It's an expensive hobby I picked up at the end of my life.

When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.

I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.

Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles -

I should be the face of Samuel Smith Beer. That'd be great.

Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!

A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.

[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.

I've actually tasted the beer; it's quite nice. It's called Samuel Smith, which is my actual name. It's good beer. Maybe that's my favorite.

The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.

Enjoy the joy of being enjoyed by God.

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

You need never fear feeling too good about God.

The New Testament never once warns us that humbly seeking and praying for spiritual gifts will bring anything other than a blessing.

Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving.

The biblical basis is the numerous biblical texts which describe prophecy as a spiritual gift that should characterize God's people in the age of the New Covenant.

A simple definition of prophecy is that it's when we speak forth in merely human - and thus often fallible - words something that the Holy Spirit spontaneously brings to mind.

Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

Donald Trump enters office with historically low approval ratings, that's where the battle could get fought. If the country turns against him, his Republican adversaries could feel emboldened.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.