M.white Quotes

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

Both of my parents were musicians.

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.

I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.

This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

You can't hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

A right is a responsibility in reverse.

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.

America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.

You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind.

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.

By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.

The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect.

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.