Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers Quotes
Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
-
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
-
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
-
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
-
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
-
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-
Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
-
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
-
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
-
I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
-
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
-
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
-
After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
-
I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
-
I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
-
In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
-
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
-
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
-
Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'
-
If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
-
On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.
-
You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.
-
Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
