M.white Quotes

People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means "sickening to contemplate"; the second means "sick at the stomach." Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others.

I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Vodka is kind of a hobby.

All photographs are self-portraits.

Once you grow up and discover yourself as a human being you look at things for what they are.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

When life hands you lemons make lemonade. Then find someone who's life gave them Tequila and have a party.

The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

My only goal is to make you laugh, not tell you the truth.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can't mate or the mice would explode.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

You can only do two things with your life: give it away or throw it away.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

I'm not out to change the world. I'm out to change mine.

The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week.

There are a million really good cigars, you gotta really float around cigars. It's not like being locked into a brand of cigarettes; at least to me it's not.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.

Nature is the mirror of divinity.

I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you and I don't know myself and I don't know life, but I believe the answers are in this book.

Only fools want to be great.

Whatever it is that you're passionate about... try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.