Stan Smith Sayings

#1. Come swish around my pretty punk
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill.

William Butler Yeats

#2. The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.

Steven Pinker

#3. When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons.

Bill Gates

#4. Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

Stan Smith

#5. Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody.

Liz Phair

#6. Death is a continuation of my life without me...

Jean-Paul Sartre

#7. When God's putting His finger on the part of your life that's not working, He's pointing to your next miracle.

Graham Cooke

#8. When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

Russell Crowe

#9. In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

Stan Smith

#10. By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.

David F. Houston

#11. When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

Stan Smith

#12. Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

Stan Smith

#13. Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.

Stan Smith

#14. Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

Stan Smith

#15. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Kin Hubbard

#16. Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!

Stan Smith

#17. Ladies & Gentelman, the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating, Sweet Stan Lane!

Jim Cornette

#18. Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

Stan Smith

#19. Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

Alexander Lowen

#20. If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

Stan Smith

#21. Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

#22. I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

Conor McPherson

#23. God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.

Stan Smith

#24. Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.

Stan Smith

#25. My first love was basketball.

Stan Smith

#26. A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

Stan Smith

#27. Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.

Stan Smith