M.white Quotes

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

Good deeds never go unpunished.

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

Perfect health depends upon perfect circulation.

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

We are against the beauty and fashion fascist regime that gets hyped in America and all over the world. "The Beautiful People" is NOT against people who style themselves in whichever way.

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

Change is scary but almost all change is good.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

I can't tell what god will do because I'm not God. I can only take you back to biblical principle.

You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.

I don't think you make fans happy by just replicating frames. What they want to see is that you stayed true to the story, true to the characters and true to the design.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

God has hooked me up.He has the life by design.

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

There are already current laws on the books and there are - and jurisdictions. The IRS can come in and do any kind of investigation of a person.

Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.

I'd tell him, though. Soon. Soonish. Eventually.

It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know, and we can know.

I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

Boys suck. Even when they have perfect blue eyes and ridiculously cool trucks. Maybe especially then.

When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.

You're never too old for anything!

But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.

I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.