Jolyon Smith Quotes & Sayings

When you fail, get hurt, feel bad, but act on it! Everybody fails, but the ones who act are the ones who change the world! — Vishwas Mudagal

No one has ever made me feel like this, no one. So much regret, so much loss, and so much desire all swirled together in my muddled brain. In my muddled heart. — Melissa Brown

For an important intellectual product to be immediately weighty, a deep relationship or concordance has to exist between the life of its creator and the general lives of the people. These people are generally unaware why exactly they praise a certain work of art. Far from being truly knowledgeable, they perceive it to have a hundred different benefits to justify their adulation; but the real underlying reason for their behavior cannot be measured, is sympathy. — Thomas Mann

I look at every book as a self-help book. — Marc Maron

I always write well in New York. — David Bowie

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. — Ronald Fisher

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive. — Victoria Principal

I have no style, because I change each time ... each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday. — Vladimir Horowitz

A son," the Queen said, and her smile lit up the room. "Will I give birth soon?"
The old woman nodded.
"When?"
The old woman reached out and rested her hand on top of the basket, watched the Queen's eyes darken. "When he's more beautiful than you. — Wheeler Scott

You can live a hundred years and never really live one minute if for of what could happen, what might happen prevents you from goin' after what you want — Julie Ann Walker

But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn't know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home. — Bill Bryson

We can't stick together if we're going to different places," CeeCee said. — Julie Schumacher