Mincher Quotes & Sayings

It's hard for me to talk about love,' she said. 'I think movies are the way I do that. — Anna North

I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away. — Jim Clark

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from. — J. C. Watts

I'm not sure I'm going to like Don Mincher. I keep hearing that big southern accent of his. It's prejudice, I know, but every time I hear a southern accent I think: stupid. A picture of George Wallace pops into my mind. It's like Lenny Bruce saying he could never associate a nuclear scientist with a southern accent. — Jim Bouton

Good-bye,' I said to them, but they didn't seem to hear me, and why would they have wanted to? Why would they have wanted to do with the world outside of each other? Outside each other, they were mean little human beings like the rest of us, the kind of people you both loathed and pitied. Separately, they were characters, and not in a good way. But together they were something to wonder at and maybe even envy. I had this unoriginal thought as I walked out the door and toward my van: love changes us, makes us into people whom others then want to love. That's why, to those of us without it, love is the voice asking, What else? What else? And to those of us who have had love and lost it or thrown it away, then love is the voice that leads us back to love, to see if it might still be ours or if we've lost it, love is also the thing that makes us speak in aphorisms about love, which is why we try to get love back, so we can stop speaking that way. Aphoristically, that is. — Brock Clarke

The priceless gift of life, strength and time is our greatest wealth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew. — Samuel Rogers

The music that I play is much more accepted in America. Do you know what I mean? Americans recognize and not necessarily country music. I go to a lot of places in Canada and they go "I don't like country music" and they think I'm a country musician. When I am a country musician but not a country musician like they think of. — Fred Eaglesmith

You will seek a way to have thoughts, feeling that if you think you will have to remember. There will be things you do want to remember and others you would like, or that you will need, to forget. — Carlos Fuentes

I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out. — Gary Oldman

You know how we sometimes sigh, "Well, that was a waste of time."? Or we snap at somebody: "You're wasting my time!" What does that even mean in the age of texts and tweets, TV and video games? — Ron Brackin

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. — Frederick Lenz

There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it. — Glen Duncan

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place? — Stendhal

Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in. — Maureen Corrigan