Smythson Diary Quotes

#1. Compared to relationships, events and programs make me think of ice skates gliding across ice. Relationships make me think of gum on the bottom of a shoe on a hot day.

Jonathan Leeman

#2. We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

Alice Miller

#3. While I was strong enough to handle just about any damn thing that came my way, it felt good to have a little something to hold onto during the darkest times.

Colleen Vanderlinden

#4. You have debased my child ... You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence ... a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.

Lee De Forest

#5. Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

Mike Krzyzewski

#6. Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

Harlan Coben

#7. Anything can happen and it probably will.

Brian Houston

#8. [My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

Nicole Polizzi

#9. When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

Dalai Lama

#10. We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

Augustus William Hare

#11. It's up there, and you can see the front of it. But what it is isn't what you're looking at. It's behind what you're looking at.

Charles Wright

#12. There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

Marilyn Monroe