C.C. Hunter Quotes

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

The only thing that can hurt me is being apart from you.

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.

Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

If you feel that . . . what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren't very famous either.

My favorite song depends on the day, what I’m going through, what I’m feeling.

A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.

But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

His words are nothing more than mist and sunshine, impossible to hold down.

Never be afraid of the future, for it brings wonderful things.

What a glorious thing is life, surrounded by the beauties of the world in which we live.

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

When we . . . read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage.

Death by starvation is slow.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.

Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.

A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

INTENTIONS - ACTION = SQUAT

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.