Mark E. Smith Quotations

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.

'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.

When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.

Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.

If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

We didn't defend him very well. He's a nice player, but we made him look like Michael Jordan out there.

What we're more focused on is continuing to get the aid and necessary supplies to those in need.

We're right down to the wire now. It may come down to one shift or one mistake and you are in or out of the playoffs. It is crunch time right now.

We ran cooling configurations and also worked on chassis set-up.

We're concerned that we will get more, and we want to make sure that the assets are ready and available to take care of those people should they call.

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

She's a tiger out there, a tough competitor, and when the chips are on the table she usually performs. She did a great job tonight.

Since NAFTA there's been a good deal of U.S. investment in Mexico. Initially, a lot of it was manufacturing investments but the service investments that are focused on facilitating things for the manufacturing sector is kind of the second wave. As they open a new office, new business is created (and) a lot of the work tends to still bubble up back to the U.S. parent.

Right now everybody is pretty much ready to ride the storm out.

I'd be lying to say it isn't tough. We did look a little tight in the first half, but I don't think fatigue was an issue.

If you are doing the speed limit these things won't happen,

He was unique in that he was good in politics and good at public policy. He was good at both.

We can move music to a place that it should be. Some have argued that the music business should be further along than the film industry, which is not an indigenous industry (to Louisiana).

We switched to a man-to-man and challenged the girls (and) through effort and heart we came back.

The pain and horror of losing a loved one to a workplace accident is unimaginable. We're here today because thousands of workers go to work and don't return home at the end of the day - and it doesn't have to be that way.

We made some adjustments in the second half.

He could see things happening over there. They were doing good things and he really thought so.

Guys who were bass fishing and had lesser equipment and boats, they saw these tournaments on TV and they saw if they had better boats and gear, they could go out and fish these tournaments. They just figured, 'Hey, I can do that.

It can be quite difficult for an adult to admit to having poor basic skills and many would be too ashamed to go to college. But if they study through the medium of football, and go into a friendly environment like a football stadium, it takes the stigma out of it.

I thought we really played hard. We were diving all over the place for loose balls. I still think our strength is taking the ball to basket, but we relied on the three too much and that hurt us.

I thought we really played hard in the fourth quarter. We got it down (to single digits), but that's a huge hill to climb. Not only is it a huge hill to climb, but (Larkin's) a good team.

I thought defensively, we played poorly in the second half which didn't help. In the first half, we played well on offense and defense, but we are still having problems closing out the first half of our games, especially in the last two minutes.

I thought we had some good looks, but we kind of floated instead of taking it at someone to get to the free throw line. They are big, and they pounded the boards on us in the second half.

I think it was right there on the goal line and I tried to bat it out with my hand. I guess it's illegal. It shouldn't have been in front of the net in the first place.

I think that what we're going to have to do is bring ourselves up with the rapid technology in crime. Crime is not one-on-one anymore. Crime happens hundreds of miles away with a couple of keystrokes on a computer. And in order to protect our residents from those types of things ... I think we have to be on top of that. We have to be well-versed in what's out there. So I see us moving in that direction.

I think Ellis is a phenomenal player. He is unbelievable and so hard to guard. He makes everybody else better and he's just a fantastic player. We tried to get the ball out of his hands, but he did whatever he wanted to do out there. As good as he played, I thought we did as well as we could.

I saw a piece out of the wharf and I thought maybe it was from the storm, and then I saw something black in the water and then I realized it was a car.

(Outside shooting) is something that we're working on with him. He hit the two biggest ones at the end.

I thought in the second half we adjusted pretty well, but we gave up way too many baskets. We got killed at the free-throw line. We didn't attack the basket or come out strong.

I think this is a big win for us, we're coming down to it, so we are tied for eighth now, and this was a huge character win.

I was really happy with the way we battled back. We had a great crowd and it was just a nice atmosphere for Senior Night, our last home game. I still think we're making strides, but Larkin's a good team.

We hope that you can show an accurate picture of what?s being done to help the natives of New Orleans as well as what you feel is not being done. Personally, I would appreciate any help we can get because we?re sure taking a beating right now.

We'll remind them that the caucus is Monday night ... and suggest to them that Al Gore needs their support,

We are delighted that Craig Parry will be at the centenary event of the Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship - especially after his nail-biting win at the Heineken Classic earlier in the year.

We're at the point now that we probably sell 50.

Those people are going to be evacuated today by whatever means necessary.

Today, providing context in applications and in customer interactions almost always includes some geographical information.

The players are exceeding our expectations. The kids are hustling and not getting down if they make a mistake.

We've got to do a better job of getting in the shooting lanes and clearing guys out in front. Three of those came from shots from the point. That's something we have to work on, and take away from their game.

We'll just take the positives from this and move on.

We kind of knew what we had to deal with it before the season started. We say if you know it before it happens, it's not an excuse.

We turned four double plays, so we played well defensively. We just didn't hit the ball well enough to win.

We did a good job of limiting the touches of (Wilkes, who is committed to Virginia Commonwealth University) but (Warren) really hurt us.

Craig Parry is a great champion and ambassador for Schweppes

Early in the season, our pitching really came through for us. The pitching has dropped off lately but the bats have really picked up the slack.

I've been eating here for 21 years. I walk around and think, 'What's the lesser of the evils?

The wonderful thing about Louisiana is we fish, and we tend to band together and help one another. We hope to see huge numbers of volunteers.

Dell is focused on driving advanced storage technology downstream, making it easier for customers to address the typical pain points occurring in their IT environments.

This gives David a good reference for comparison when he drives RB2-02 tomorrow. Apart from a couple of problems with Christian's car, this has been another productive day.

This is about as bad a scenario as we could've had. There are still a lot of people in jeopardy.

There wasn't one candidate that doesn't appreciate tourism. But they all need to know the numbers better to see what we bring to the community.

They're really skilled, and they move the puck really good ? a lot of one-touch passes. Bing, bing, bing right around you, and it's a shot from an open guy. We've got to do a lot better job collapsing and taking away the middle of the ice.

About 75 percent of them are new people who haven't been in before.

It's just one of those things. We understand we are just a part of it.

It was fun and I thought it was a great effort by our kids. We battled to the end. I'm encouraged by the way we've been playing since Christmas.

It's already become unaffordable to live in Orford, but this whole tax issue didn't help. I don't deny that what they've given as an appraisal on our home is close to fair market value, but the view factor is just a whole new concept.

It was nice to win a game when things weren't going right for us. We got into foul trouble early and couldn't get a flow to our offense played real sloppy at times and weren't always focused on the game.

It was off and on, and off and on, ... Then, about three days before they came here, we were told we were going to do it.

They came out like I was in the wrong. They pulled right up to me, windshield to windshield, and were waving and hollering for me to back up. I told them I'm not moving.

They came out and they were ready to play and we weren't. We gave up way too many offensive rebounds and just didn't match their intensity.

They are going to get stuck, or electrocuted, or bitten by snakes. We are trying to impress upon people that they simply can't go home right now.

They'll resolve that over time. The copper that they lost will not affect the long-term outlook.

It's not as transparent as I would have liked it all to have been. It was an illogical way to say a company had been having a look at them.

The CDC epidemiologists pulled up the data immediately and followed up on cases in real-time as the data came in. We heard three weeks later that the paper survey was still sitting on someone's desk.

if the water is about to come over the roof of someone's house do they have a need greater than the elderly person lying in their bed in the nursing home? ... They're not about to die because they're about to get swept away by a flood.

If there were a hell for dumb decisions,

He's our captain and we're just going to ride him all the way through.

He's got a fastball, curve and change. He throws a heavy ball. That means he gets plenty of grounders. He's done everything we have asked of him so far.

He can go to the basket, but he's not finishing. They had some big guys in there blocking the shots without leaving the ground.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me...

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

The helicopter came down hard and rolled over on its side and broke its blades off and broke its tail off.

The day Jerry came here you could tell he was special. It's not like he's over-achieving. He's that good.