B. J. Porter Quotes

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

The only thing that this uproar does is give aid and comfort to the enemy and I don't think there's anybody who wants to give aid and comfort to the terrorists.

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn’t get published any other way.

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

What we need is endless courage.

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

Money can be translated into the beauty of living.

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.

I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.

Yelling and screaming won't really get what I want from my kids.

I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

I guess I'm a pretty curious person. I like doing new things. I like being challenged. I'm competitive. Trying to beat my personal best.

I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down. I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.

With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it.

Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything that quick.

So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big.

Anyone can have bad sets. I saw one guy who I really love - I won't mention his name - gave a set that was really bad. And then one month later did the exact same set on our show and it was great.

: But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don't think they need that kind of intimacy with those people.

How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

I've always been passionate about fashion.

I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.

Something that simply mystifies me.

It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't.

Nobody wants to phone me, Even collect.

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.