Robert Smith
Robert Smith
Singer-songwriter and guitarist for the goth and new wave British band The Cure who sang "Friday I'm in Love," "Just Like Heaven," and "Lovecats."
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth21 April 1959
CityBlackpool, England
breathe danger die hair image living lost percent spent time war worth
Unting is all that's worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting - it is like the hair we breathe - if we have it not we die - it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty percent of its danger
would-be enjoyment pleasant
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
foxes
It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.
able three lawyer
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
frightened
Better be killed than frightened to death.
speak praise dealer
It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.
sky listening houston
I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
explaining because-i-can feels
I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
smile writing faces
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
demise pushing-it accepted
Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.
hard-times giving looks
A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.
nice book genuine
If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.
nice people listening
It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.
marine marine-corps relation
I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.