Top 72 Mark Smith Quotes
#1. I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.
Mark E. Smith
#2. I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
Mark E. Smith
#3. I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's like wrestling with an old friend, tumbling underneath then coming up for air.
Mark Smith
#5. It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.
Mark E. Smith
#6. It seems to me," said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, "that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.
Zadie Smith
#7. The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.
Mark Goddard
#8. It was exciting just to stand in front of the hallowed ground of Birdland that had been blessed by John Coltrane, or the Five Spot on St. Mark's Place where Billie Holiday used to sing, where Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman opened the field of jazz like human can openers.
Patti Smith
#9. History may not repeat itself," in Mark Twain's wise formulation, "but it rhymes.
Adam Smith
#10. Did you mark that?"
"Most of it."
"Then I have your obedience."
"I didn't exactly plan to go anywhere this morning, " she told him testily. "But, I wasn't lost. I was just hunting. And I wasn't in trouble."
"Human, you are not yet out of trouble.
R. Lee Smith
#11. Nuking Russia might not be a bad idea as far as the bleedin' world is concerned. They've plunged a lot of people into miserable lives. You've only got to be in East Germany to see it. It's a horrible way to live. It's like Doncaster.
Mark E. Smith
#12. The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.
Mark Goddard
#13. Dislodge the cultural brainwash that makes so many people so completely miserable. I
Mark Haskell Smith
#14. Strength is not created by adversity; it is merely awakened by it.
Mark Eddy Smith
#15. It was with much satisfaction that I recognized the wisdom of having told this candid gentleman, in the beginning, that my name was Smith.
Mark Twain
#16. I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.
Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.
Mark E. Smith
#17. Okay. I'll help you fight. What do you think we're up against? Bears, Coyotes ... "
"My Brother.
L.J.Smith
#18. Animals, Mark, have no use for nostalgia, Aunt Kenna says. It is not a tool for survival, my darling. But
Ali Smith
#19. No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel ... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall.
Matt Smith
#20. When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.
Mark E. Smith
#21. Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.
Mark E. Smith
#22. Truth, meanwhile, was a weapon
that even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce a
profit.
Mark Allen Smith
#23. And he had a theory about fear. It was all about regret. If you make what you want out of life and don't bullshit yourself about your choices, then there are no regrets, and a man without regret isn't afraid of anything.
Mark Allen Smith
#24. Mark, shaken, realizes he has just made the terrible mistake of not just seeming to be but actually being sincere.
Ali Smith
#25. I drank a jar of coffee
And I took some of these
Mark E. Smith
#26. I find getting the first draft down to be the biggest challenge. Every word, every punctuation mark, every plot point is a decision. It's much more fun to play with something that already exists.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
#27. Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
Mark E. Smith
#28. PROLOGUE The client sat in an eight-foot-square room staring at a large one-way mirror that offered a view into flat, smooth darkness. An audio
Mark Allen Smith
#29. The buffaloes hardly ever cry but you dagos always wriggle your way to the bars and start bawling,
Mark Smith
#30. Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.
Mark E. Smith
#31. The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.
Mark E. Smith
#32. Look, I'll fight, too. What do you think it is? Bear, coyote ... ?"
"My brother."
"Your ... " Dismay pooled in Mark. She'd just stepped over the line of acceptable craziness. "Oh.
L.J.Smith
#33. A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.
Mark Rippetoe
#34. I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.
Mark E. Smith
#36. The world knows nothing of you. That is my gift to you. You are no one.
Mark Allen Smith
#37. What kind of world do we live in? Why are we applauding this guy's abs? I mean, no offense to Michael Phelps. We like him. But he's not smart. He hasn't invented anything or saved people's lives. He's a guy with abs, and we celebrate these abs.
Mark Haskell Smith
#38. Early retirement, Dalton. Teach yourself to type with your toes and you
can start writing your memoirs.
Mark Allen Smith
#39. If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.
Mark E. Smith
#40. My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
Mark E. Smith
#42. The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.
Mark E. Smith
#43. Kathryn Smith: 16 DPA/Landov: 21 Courtesy of Daniel Kottke: 56 Mark Richards: 71, 348 Ted Thai/Polaris: 102
Walter Isaacson
#45. Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation - all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith's vision of an opulent society.
Mark Skousen
#46. On my first TV job I didn't have a clue. They'd tell me to hit my mark and I had no idea what they meant. You just pick it up. And ultimately, all it's really about is pretending to be someone else.
Sheridan Smith
#47. They fail to realize that 99.9 per cent of people with a healthy diet will eventually die.
Mark E. Smith
#48. Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.
Mark W. Smith
#49. The second god lived by mountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp
Mark E. Smith
#50. I never would've thought seeing a hundred naked people around a swimming pool would have been dullsville, but it is.
Mark Haskell Smith
#51. I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.
Mark E. Smith
#52. I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.
Mark E. Smith
#53. There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.
Rodney "Gipsy" Smith
#55. I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
Mark E. Smith
#56. Demands for 3d Floor Plans have increased significantly compared to the last couple of years where only black and white layouts are the standard choice in the building or housing industry.
Mark Smith
#57. We "talk" relationship but we "live" religion, with unsatisfying results. Christianity defines itself, first and foremost, as a relationship with God. Even though this is true, our human nature tends toward living a relationship with God as if it were a religion
Mark Cowper-Smith
#58. 'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.
Mark E. Smith
#59. If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.
Mark E. Smith
#60. In fact, during his life on earth, there were parts of God the Father's plan that Jesus himself did not know (Mark 13:32). As for us, God tells us what we need to know and instructs us to get on with living in light of what he does tell.
Christian Smith
#61. In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.
Mark Haskell Smith
#62. When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.
Mark E. Smith
#63. You won't find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine
L.J.Smith
#64. In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.
Mark Allen Smith
#65. He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.
Mark E. Smith
#66. I used to believe everything I read, but now I'm steppin' out.
Mark E. Smith
#67. I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.
Mark E. Smith
#68. Smith, for example, claimed that if Americans defended slavery on the basis of the Old Testament, they should also defend practices like polygamy and the complete annihilation of defeated armies that are also prescribed in the Old Testament
Mark A. Noll
#69. What an awesome privilege for some, looking upon a human body that houses the forbidden mystery of death.
Mark Smith
#70. It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
Huston Smith
#71. The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.
Mark Haskell Smith
#72. In high school for prom, I asked my girlfriend - we were both into horror movies - by dressing up as a zombie. I had a bloody t-shirt and I spray-painted a giant question mark on my t-shirt and had people hold bloody sings saying, 'Dying to go to prom with you.'
Justice Smith
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