J.C. Spencer Quotes
A couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.
I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.
On the film sets of 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' I feel safe. It's like you're in the center of the hurricane, but outside is where it starts to get chaotic.
My idea for a Buddhist video game: No guns. Self-immolate instead. Get reincarnated. Repeat until you find Nirvana. Takes forever to play.
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.
Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.
Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.
So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.
Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.
Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.
If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.
It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.
If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It's not a bargain if your house burns down.
After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.
I have experienced loss in my life, but the thing that brings you back is your faith.
Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.
I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.
Because we all come from different circumstances, our life experiences really color how we view things.
Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.