Smoaks Quotes & Sayings

How about when I get to work, I have a new chair at my desk with a note attached saying," Your new chair, if you break it you buy the next one." AHMM no an email will be going out saying "If it breaks, replace it with the old one, there was nothing wrong with it. — James Jones

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die. — Thomas Campion

I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses. — Bibhu Mohapatra

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do? — Arthur C. Clarke

I love working out. I mean, I've been doing it for about 20 years every day of my entire life. So I enjoy working out. — Ryan Lochte

When we start rating each other's lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective. — Ariana Carruth

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say. — Martin Amis

Now the parable takes on a very personal focus. We can no longer enjoy observation without participation. We are part of the drama that is staged in this parable. Jesus came. What have we done with the truth of His message and the gift of His forgiving death? — Lloyd John Ogilvie

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges. — Rudyard Kipling

He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon. — Tony Gubba

This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything, your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you. — Rajneesh

I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for. — Julia Quinn

He preferred smart questions to smart answers. — Yoko Ogawa