J.C. Spencer Quotes

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

Evil can't be scientifically defined: it's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably been linked to religion and mythology.

Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.

I have butchered many men. All are innocent and equaled when they are on the table. All are exquisite and grotesque. -Dr. Spencer Black

They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?" "You'd think so.

Heart and character have no gender, religion nor color.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books.

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

I'm surprised I could actually talk with how much I was grinning.

I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.

An eerie feeling plagued the back of her mind, insisting that a supernatural force was within the room, or worse, within her!

The young have little use for the concept of rebirth, yet the older they get the more appealing the concept becomes.

the romance of solitude and small places, the blurring of identity.

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.

But in the earlier hours, or so I have read, they still have got their daylight minds. It takes the midnight mind to do the black deed to the black man.

I think you're something wonderful.

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk.

No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed.

Her body was designed for pleasure, not speed, and Coop intended to take his time with it.

Don’t even think about it, Fido.

As Haw prepared to leave, he started to feel more alive, knowing that he was finally able to laugh at himself, let go and move on.

Anyone young, famous and beautiful who dies young is forever frozen in time and fascinating to all of us.

So far he’d been there for three hours, hadn’t gotten a thing done, was heading out for a free lunch, and was getting paid for it. Jobs were awesome.

things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one, of those times, Hem. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.

Humility fears not humiliation.

Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese

when he was afraid to changed he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there

My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for.

August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Progress requires setbacks the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Reusable rockets promise much easier testing because you should usually get them back, and you can debug as you go rather than having to get everything perfect the first time.

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.

In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.