Brent Smith Quotes

#1. I screwed up at a young age with my parents. They were very religious and they didn't really understand music. They didn't really listen to music. I went through a series of battles with them about why I loved music.

Brent Smith

#2. All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.

Joy Harjo

#3. You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

Joyce Rachelle

#4. We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.

Brent Smith

#5. You don't control this. I do. And you've pissed me off, wife.

J.J. McAvoy

#6. She preferred the times when she could pretend that she was in a gravity well to the little reminders that she was the puppet of acceleration and inertia.

James S.A. Corey

#7. Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

Brent Musburger

#8. "Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.

James C. Collins

#9. I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.

Yuri Kochiyama

#10. I tell you, the sperm will stand no nonsense.

Herman Melville

#11. The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.

Brent Smith

#12. What are you watching?"
One shoulder rose in a shrug. "Looks like an informercial for music of the eighties. Thinking about buying it.

J. Lynn

#13. Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Orson Scott Card

#14. You've got two choices: you could either complain about it, or use it as fuel to make you a better person.

Brent Smith

#15. There are no roadblocks, only springboards.

Brent Smith

#16. Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy ... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.

Brent Smith

#17. They climbed back into the dish with brooms and scrubbing brushes and carefully swept it clean of what they referred to in a later paper as "white dielectric material," or what is known more commonly as bird shit.

Bill Bryson

#18. Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

Aeschylus

#19. Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

Vladimir Nabokov

#20. Every believer is made complete when placed under the complete claim of Christ, and all the spiritual ills of our world find their only cure in him.

David E. Garland

#21. Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

Brent Smith