M.white Quotes

Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.

The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.

Gather every promise. This is Jesus, the life of every grace, the life of every promise, the life of every ordinance, the life of every blessing.

Planning is not my friend. Impulse is.

Eyes like streams of melting snow,” she said, and it was all I could do not to roll my melting snow eyes.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in countries where there are fruits, grains, and nuts in abundance, flesh food is not the right food for God's people.

What a lovely balance. Lend shows whatever he wants the world to see and you see through whatever the world wants to show you.

Oh relax." I waved my hand dismissively. "If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these sharp pencils, ideal for stabbing, and he's been a perfect gentleman.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

Never hurry and never worry!

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

I used to have a road-rage issue.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.

You gotta use everything you possibly can!

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

Literally it’s the precise moment when dog doo turns white, but in general it refers to the type of person you don’t want to share your hoogencogles with.

Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

I love the Arctic Monkeys . Who doesn't? I'd love to see them live, but haven't got round to it yet. I never get to see bands because I'm never in the same town for more than two seconds.

The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

I spend most of my money on beer, the rest I just waste.

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

In every queen there's a touch of floozy.

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

Loneliness is a strange gift.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.