Francie Larrieu Smith Quotes

#1. People, even crazy, evil people, tended to believe they have a good reason for doing what they do. Though some consider religion the opiate of the masses, others use it to further their obsessions, or rationalize their crimes.

J.A. Konrath

#2. Motivation has to come from within. I make up my mind to shoot for the moon. Even if I don't make it, I'll be among the stars.

Francie Larrieu Smith

#3. I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on the strength of its own commercial judgment. If we cannot rely on the judgment of individual businessmen, taking their own risks, we have no future anyway.

John James Cowperthwaite

#4. I tell runners ... that no matter how inexperienced a runner you may be, there is nothing wrong with being intense. You don't know what you might discover.

Francie Larrieu Smith

#5. When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.

David Walliams

#6. the most important thing was to show strength of will, not when matters were going well, but when they were going badly.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#7. My mullet was an insecurity shield. My mullet was an ethnic hatchet. My mullet was an arrow on fire.
My mullet said to the literary world, Hello, you privileged prep-school assholes, I'm here to steal your thunder, lightning, and book sales.

Sherman Alexie

#8. One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Lewis Mumford

#9. Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

Meghan O'Rourke

#10. Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time ...

J.M. Barrie

#11. The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

Francie Larrieu Smith

#12. I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.

Elmer Bernstein

#13. Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Isaac D'Israeli