Smugglers Notch Quotes

#1. Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Immanuel Kant

#2. I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.

Marta Kauffman

#3. The ultimate source of energy, the sun is ready to set. The leaves of the blooming lotus flower in the pond are losing their lustre. A bumblebee, sitting on that lotus is enjoying the romantic pleasure and murmuring passionate songs.

Manmohan Acharya

#4. Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. I personally prefer being a blonde, but whatever it takes for the character.

Peta Wilson

#6. Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.

Shelly Crane

#7. The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.

Reggie Bush

#8. Can I come in?"

I thought that if the moon ever disappeared, the sea would retreat so no one would see it crying. I thought the winds would stop dancing. That the sun would not want to rise again.

Nothing of the kind. The world continues to turn, and meters must be read.

Antoine Leiris

#9. It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

Carine Roitfeld

#10. Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the
first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their
blade, the length of their arms, etc.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#12. What are you thinking, Bliss?
I should have said, you. Naked. That would have shocked him. Not that I was actually thinking of him naked ... well, now that I mentioned it I was ... damn.

Cora Carmack

#13. It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Jesse Helms