Jefferson Smith > Quotes

“You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“Respect is a really powerful magic too, you know.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.”
― Jefferson Smith

“It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“Muscle-work can only make one weary—it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“How do you explain plastic to a medieval forest bard?”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“Respect is a kind of magic too, you know.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be men. They forget even more. Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books.”
― Jefferson Smith

“How would I like to work for the CIA, he said, as a Non-Official agent. NOs are the guys who don’t technically exist. They are ghost operatives, working without schedules, bureaucracy, and, above all, students.”
― Jefferson Smith, All These Shiny Worlds: The 2016 ImmerseOrDie Anthology

“Either that, or the coincidence fairy was getting ready to fuck him again.
And that one was never gentle with her love.”
― Jefferson Smith, The Widow's Wrinkles

“But the truth is, if things are so bad you’ve gotta send Balls O’Manly Steel in to save the day… Well, you’re probably already nipples up. Or you soon will be. Nah, in the real world, it’s us older folks who’re gonna save your bacon.”
― Jefferson Smith, Famine, With Fries