H R Brock Quotes

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

Being right doesn’t mean you win. You win by establishing credibility, a relationship, and trust.

Im a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

"Be courageous and keep moving forward"... that's kind of the mantra that I've tried to keep.

You're not beating when you lose, you're beaten when you quit.

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was doing. The lines seem pulled on either end, tight and taut against the wind.

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.

I honor Earth First for having the guts to do the things they do. It's not for me, but I understand why they do what they do. And, ultimately, we all help each other.

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

Be intense, be ready to go, but just enjoy it.

There's going to be highs and there's going to be lows, try to keep your emotions out of it a little bit.

Make excuses to train not excuses not to train!

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.

A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.

It took me a while to realize that's just your body preparing you to do something.

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written down even before one has committed a crime.

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet.

Every thing is changing every minute.

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

Thank you for seeing me on the days when I couldn't see myself.

After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.

Oh no, " I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.

There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset.

What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion’s den. Jonah prayed in a fish’s stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

Prayer is the main dish. Everything else is gravy.

You have to be near Him to hear Him.

It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.

There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.