J. D. Vance Quotes

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.

I become drunk as circumstances dictate.

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.

Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.

God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.

We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.

If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before.

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.

Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

The detour is always rougher than the main road

I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!

If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.

We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.

The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.

Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

Kisses kept are wasted; love is to be tasted.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.