Famous Quotes

"I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile."

Charles de Lint on Smile

More quotes about Smile

• "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

  Leo Buscaglia on Smile

• "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

  Dr. Seuss on Smile

• "Look back, and smile on perils past."

  Walter Scott on Smile

• "A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

  William Arthur Ward on Smile

• "A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

  Phyllis Diller on Smile

More quotes by Charles de Lint

• "The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."

• "Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning."

• "One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled."

• "The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."

• "Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places."