M.white Quotes

Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?

There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.

I don't cook. I think they named the 'Mike'-rowave after me.

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

Cheer up beautiful people... this is where you get to make it right.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.

UFC 151 will be remembered as the event Jon Jones and Greg Jackson murdered.

The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

I've never tried to be a celebrity chef, people call me that but I was that young boy that the media chose.

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.

Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.

We had a church together. We co-founded and co-pastored the ministry, but Randy [White] was really a strong part.

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

I have my own personal opinions, but they're just that.

I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.

It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.

Why does everyone keep asking me that?" Seriously, did I look like some sort of pyscho assassin? Maybe it was the pink sneakers. Or the heart earrings?

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

Cement doesn't give as much as snow.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

Don't ever let anybody know you're injured.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That's cool if you're a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person.

Boxing is your father's sport.

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. --- Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.