Smethers Estate Quotes & Sayings

In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here. — John P. Kotter

Yet, after all, insensible as he is to a thousand wants, and removed from harassing cares, my not the savage be the happier man..? — Herman Melville

It's such an honor. I still get, I guess, starstruck, at the Opry. Because there's so much history here and there are so many legends that are still walking around backstage, so it's really an incredible, incredible experience for somebody like me that grew up listening to all of them. And to be able to share the stage with them is something that I treasure. — Kellie Pickler

There was a man of the cloth - Reverend Shibata of the First Baptist Church - who left urging everyone to forgive and forget. There was a man in a shiny brown suit - fry cook Kanda of Yabu Noodle - who left urging Reverend Shibata to give it a rest. — Julie Otsuka

I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing
working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that! — Peter Cameron

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. — W. H. Auden

After much research I've found the secret to publishing: Write excellent books. Write lots of them. — Liana Brooks

When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough. — Ernest Hemingway,

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect. — Alice Duer Miller