Seth Grahame Smith Inspirational Quotes (59)

It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln, laughed Davis, pointing north. You're in Mississippi now.

I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.

Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.

I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore no classics to be studied not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.