F. F. Bruce Quotes

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me Ma.'

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.

I won't say ours was a tough school but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to Be if I Grow Up."

In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Our sons who so easily recognize our errors and rightly denounce them will have to confess their own later on and they may be as bad as ours perhaps worse.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do what experience tells you to do and what your nerves let you do.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.

Only a fool would dream of riches when what is rarest are moments

There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing you're screwed'.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them I will always love them.

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning it suggests something opening up.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

The commercial space industry owes a huge debt to Patti Grace Smith. There might not be a commercial spaceflight industry were it not for Patti's leadership.

When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'

Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.