M.white Quotes

I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

I had gotten pregnant and decided make this - what people might have thought as a wrong - of course, my greatest gifts in life.

Work to me is a sacred thing.

I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.

I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been.

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

Good luck trying to force Evie to do anything else once she has made up her mind. She is the definition of a stubborn, headstrong teenager.” “And you love me for it.” “I do.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

Passion, for me, is like a shark - it never stops moving.

Oh, I never look under the hood.

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

I started doing the nursery and then prepared 89 hours to teach 2 to 4-year- olds.nd during this time working in this church and going to a little country church, I met Randy [White].

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

Ezekiel says this, though, he's - God said to the prophet, he said I'm going to cause you to sit where they've sat.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.

Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.

Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.