F. F. Bruce Quotes

You can't start a fire without a spark

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.

I haven't seen this many men dressed in women's clothing since my bachelor party

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

When you are through changing, you are through.

That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

If you have problems in your life, don’t assume there is something wrong with you.

Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.

We need not fear the future or falter in hope or good cheer, because God is with us.

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him

Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

The first rule of trading - there are probably many first rules - is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun

All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.

But I shall not know any better then than I know now that he is God’s Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer, and that salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in no other way.

The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'

We do not become. We simply are.