Deirdra Smith Quotes & Sayings

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime. — Joe Louis

It's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn't know who I was. Then I invented someone and became her. Then I began to like what I invented. And finally I was what I was again ... Anna Quindlen — Anna Quindlen

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity. — Spike Jonze

The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything. — Anais Nin

Little towns are like little children in this respect, that they interest most when they are enacting native peculiarities unconscious of beholders. Discovering themselves to be watched they attempt to be entertaining by putting on an antic, and produce disagreeable caricatures which spoil them. The — Thomas Hardy

I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level. — Banks

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. — Jay Asher

The other day I got invited to a party, but I stayed home instead. Just me and my pal Johnny Walker and his brothers Black and Red. — George Thorogood

The most wretched of sights, the just-crushed spirit. — Chang-rae Lee

I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that a new era in society will commence from the moment that aerial navigation is familiarly realised ... I feel perfectly confident, however, that this noble art will soon be brought home to man's convenience, and that we shall be able to transport ourselves and our families, and their goods and chattels, more securely by air than by water, and with a velocity of from 20 to 100 miles per hour. — George Cayley

Stop Sympathising. Start Visualising. — Manoj Arora

Command, deprived of personal judgment, can win no battles. — Barbara W. Tuchman