F. F. Bruce Quotes

Two hearts are better than one.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark

In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not have the greatest range. But if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate.

Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside.

Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air.

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

Physical pain is my friend. I pursue it every night for four hours.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.

I want to spit in the face of these badlands.

Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.

My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.

Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

I do a lot of screen re-writing.

Say it clearly and you make it beautiful, no matter what.

Balding if God's way of showing you are only human... He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.

I still think that's successful, to make 50 bucks a day with your own music.

I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell.

I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

A journey is a fragment of Hell.

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.