M.T. Bass Quotes

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.

I have the worst memory in the world. I can remember some of my dreams, but later that day, i'll forget them.

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.

People do stupid things in the heat of the moment. I've been in Vegas where I've gotten married for, like, five minutes.

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

I’m such a relationship guy. I really am.

I've always been interested in making movies.

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

I was a very gawky-looking teenager, so I was not cute.

Apart from if Playboy come calling.

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.

The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and beautiful and often lonely country in-between. Kim Zupan is a wonder.

The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.

The moment that we think we know, we’ve lost our perspective on wisdom.

Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage.

While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.

All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die

Whatever her dream was, it rested somewhere in the most vague of directions.

Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?

the dolphins stitch sky to sea.

To transform home is to transform the world.

Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth.

Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question.

If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care.But when Newton’s applefell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, felltoward the apple as well.

Figuring out the secret of the universe is like trying to read a brand after the steer's been made into hamburger."~Will Durham from Crossroads, A Music Novel

The sustaining taste of victory can never be replaced by the cold metal of a trophy.

It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows the world to put its problems on hold.

It really is the best feeling in the world when everything that used to make you dizzy with desire becomes so wedged in your life that it changes from something you craved to something you belong in

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

I'm a hopeless romantic.