M.white Quotes

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.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

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.

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.

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

Jack might look my age, but he was like a little kid on a sugar high --- in need of a good spanking. --- Good heavens, that sounded creepy.

Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

What do you think? Does this face make me look fat?

I guess I can't blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a janitor would kinda suck

Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.

This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.

I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.

I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

Heaven is all health.

The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would react to something all others might walk by.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.