Ugly people are not attracted to each other, they just often settle for each other.


Carl White

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

They don't settle for mediocrity. They are very demanding of each other.
JOSH BLAISDELL
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
DORIS LESSING
I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand...
JOSEPHINE BAKER
I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because t...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Most kids don't take (the rivalry) too far. They want to beat one another obviously, but often times...
FRANK SCHADE
Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each...
RONALD REAGAN
It is more likely that a man and a woman develop romantic feelings for each other when they start da...
LINDA ALFIORI
Two married partners do not just live with each other, they live in each other, neurologically speak...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
Wrong fails because it is wrong. The wrongs, the untruths, are inconsistent with each other. They cl...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE
Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of ...
M. SCOTT PECK
We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO
Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligi...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
It's always a good rivalry. They all went to grammar school with each other. It's not just bragging ...
JEFF ROSS
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and...
HAIM G. GINOTT
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other
JESSE JACKSON
It was like horrible. Everybody was just upset and we were all there for each other, just holding ea...
ASHLEY THOMAS
There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.
ELMORE LEONARD
Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other...
FRANK LUNTZ
That was just to get our intensity back, and not settle for low-percentage shots. Because of those s...
HEATHER MCADAMS
Maybe all that matters is that they love each other, still, the way people who have known each other...
BETH KEPHART
Chandler and Enrico are a great one-two punch for us. They feed off of each other. They both want to...
BRIAN COLDING
If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries - that is, if they listen to each othe...
RICHARD THOMAS
I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days b...
ERICA JONG
When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction
GINGER ROGERS
Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.
CARSTEN JENSEN
People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
When people do come face to face with each other as human beings, they begin to understand each othe...
CAROLYN CHUTE
I feel like our culture is so good at pulling other people down and being so judgmental, but there&#...
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other...
PAUL VALERY
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
ERIC HOFFER
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to stre...
GEORGE ELIOT
They complement each other very well. They all want to outdo each other.
RICH MILLER
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
LILLIAN HELLMAN
They hug each other like they haven't seen each other in 20 years. It's a family atmosphere. They lo...
JACK JORDAN
Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.
ANTONY BEEVOR
If two people are in love with each other they should fight until the end. (When's the end?) The end...
DONNAYSIA IFIELD
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
ALICE HOFFMAN
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
OSCAR WILDE
A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, ...
ADOLF HITLER
From here on out, we've just got to lean on each other and push each other and be there to support e...
GINO GUYER
We don’t have to like each other. We just need to respect each other.
IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE
I think I'd be too hard on a boy -- every day, trying to make him a man, getting him ready for white...
CHRIS ROCK
Departments that need each other are located next to each other.
BOB DEAN
people are not good to each other.
perhaps if they were
our deaths would not be so sad.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they l...
WHITNEY OTTO
I was preaching to the people at the Superdome because they were only looking after themselves, not ...
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good [...]. They love each other because it...
NATHAN HILL
When it gets down to it, our players are not going to win for me, our coaches, or our community. The...
MARK REEVE
A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
The two were so intertwined with each other. They were perfect for each other and it was a great mar...
IVAN GOLDE
They are usually very kind to each other.
AMY LAMBERT
We often argued but always understood each other,
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
They're seeing each other more. They're listening to each other more. In the huddle everybody hears ...
PAM EDWARDS
They were there for each other,
ANDRES PEREZ
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to stre...
GEORGE ELIOT
It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
These girls are a tight group. They just support each other and they do not panic. They make mistake...
MIKE BEAUMONT
Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO
I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON
Anger and stubborness are bestfriends, they need each other for fuel.
JACKSON TAVIRI
They are starting to run for the team now and are pushing each other,
DEAN DAVIS
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp...
ELBERT HUBBARD
One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just te...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
They have each other. They don't have the donor, the father; they have each other.
ROBIN ANDERSON
People are playing with each other, and its fun. You just want it to sound good.
DAVE MORELOS
We wanted to have a human aspect to the circus, people catching each other and throwing each other. ...
ALISON CRAWFORD
They are not the biggest of friends. They do not trust each other very much.
ALESSIO VINCI
All the people know each other and we watch out for each other's kids. If my grandkids are doing som...
ASA BORING
It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gif...
MARIO PUZO
Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will ...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
They were very encouraging to each other. She'd give him backrubs. They both complimented each other...
CHERYL LADD
They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other...
PARUL WADHWA
Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell p...
STEPHEN COVEY
We have a good blend. We are seeing a lot of the senior people from the area. And for many of them, ...
DEBBIE KING
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any rela...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen e...
GEORGE ELIOT
You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
They were very encouraging to each other. She'd give him back rubs. They both complimented each othe...
CHERYL LADD
We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; i...
HERMANN HESSE
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each o...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each othe...
LUKE MACFARLANE
Some souls are just meant to be for each other forever, and ever, and ever!
AVIJEET DAS
We're not yet at that point [for a dynamite charge]. They are still talking and not killing each oth...
IRA SORKIN
Good lovers understand each other. Better lovers respect each other. Best lovers live to trust each ...
ANUJ SOMANY
We just kind of learned how each other played and got comfortable with each other.
RANSOM ANTOINE
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they...
ERNEST HELLO
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when th...
ERNEST HELLO
There's no name-calling because someone missed a question. Boys don't pick on each other as bad if g...
KRISTI ANDERSON
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen ea...
GEORGE ELIOT
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen ...
GEORGE ELIOT
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined... to strengthen e...
GEORGE ELIOT
Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other...
HERMANN HESSE
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tun...
A.W. TOZER
David loves everybody. He doesn't hear the mean things people say. He doesn't see the mean things pe...
JANIE BESS
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they ...
NEIL POSTMAN
You can tell that they're brothers because they got a real good feel for each other and they look ou...
ALBERT THOMAS
They're used to each other because they played together on modified and they're comfortable with eac...
PAT GRACEY
He just always envisioned a world where people respected each other.
JASMINE HARRINGTON

More Carl White

Every single human being has an addiction, most just have no idea they are addicted.
CARL WHITE
The only thing worse than losing someone you love is never having someone to love that you can lose.
CARL WHITE
If it was up to me I would have the soul of a newborn, the curiosity of a toddler, the energy of a t...
CARL WHITE
Religion in itself is not evil, just ignorant, superstitious and patronizing, acting upon your relig...
CARL WHITE
I can not imagine anything more painful than life itself, unfortunately the alternative is not very ...
CARL WHITE
You may legally become an adult at a certain age but the moment you truly become an adult is the mom...
CARL WHITE
If depression is a mental illness then love has to be one too.
CARL WHITE
I find the best way for me to show respect to other human beings is to spend as little time as possi...
CARL WHITE
Why waste a perfectly good life and all it has to offer by being cheap!
CARL WHITE
Men used to want to be both rich and great, now most only want to be rich and men that only pursue w...
CARL WHITE
I am convinced that people that commit suicide do it not only to end their pain but to hurt those pe...
CARL WHITE
Trying to dismiss the value of physical beauty in human beings is like trying to dismiss the value o...
CARL WHITE
I met God once, didn't particularly like her.
CARL WHITE
Trying to decide if you love a work of art is like trying to decide if you love a person, if you hav...
CARL WHITE
When they first wrote the fairy tales about love people lived to 30, in the modern world maybe we ne...
CARL WHITE
When they first wrote the fairy tales about love people lived to 30, in the modern world maybe we ne...
CARL WHITE
Life is either a road trip or the time you waste until the next road trip.
CARL WHITE
You can argue that greed simply is evolutionary, survival of the fittest, and it is proven in the mo...
CARL WHITE
Everyone should be required to use public transportation at some point in their life as standing aro...
CARL WHITE
Without major change in our financial systems our country is headed towards being a lower middle cla...
CARL WHITE
They say with age comes wisdom but the wisdom that you acquire as an old man is really only worth ha...
CARL WHITE
A man definitely invented the term “porn star”, trying to hire young women to be a “whore that...
CARL WHITE
Sometimes the difference between good and evil is simply choosing the wrong side to be on.
CARL WHITE
I still have some hope for humanity despite having pretty much given up on human beings.
CARL WHITE
I judge my country not by what it offers me but by how it treats our warriors when they return from ...
CARL WHITE
Racism in itself is not evil, just ignorant and offensive, acting upon your racist beliefs to harm s...
CARL WHITE
Treat everyone you encounter better than you expect and even hope to be treated.
CARL WHITE
Financial TV is sports for those that measure wins and losses by money, political TV is sports for t...
CARL WHITE
Show me a man without addiction and I will show you a man that just died.
CARL WHITE
Deciding that your goal in life is happiness is about as productive as a cat deciding its goal in li...
CARL WHITE
We spend most of our childhood playing, we spend most of our adulthood trying to find time to play a...
CARL WHITE
Charity in any and all forms and fashions is a wonderful thing but charity is only pure when the onl...
CARL WHITE
Always tell anyone you love that you love them because does anyone ever really get mad or bothered t...
CARL WHITE
Always tell anyone you love that you love them because does anyone ever really get upset to find out...
CARL WHITE
You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.
CARL WHITE
Most people think they are basically good human beings which means most people are not paying that m...
CARL WHITE
I immediately lose interest in any person that says their goal in life is to be rich.
CARL WHITE
A man's level of common sense is exactly inverse to how attracted he is to a woman.
CARL WHITE
Time heals everything but a broken heart when your child dies.
CARL WHITE
Every single time a child dies I have my proof that there is no God.
CARL WHITE
I need no further proof that God does not exist than the death of a child.
CARL WHITE
We have absolutely no control over who we fall in love with but truly loving someone is a conscience...
CARL WHITE
I think I want your love but what I really want is for you to trust me and need me which ultimately ...
CARL WHITE
You are never more alive than when you are with someone as they die.
CARL WHITE
Celebrities are really not that different from the average person...just worse.
CARL WHITE
The coolest person is the person that does not care who is cool.
CARL WHITE
The silliest way to waste your life is to decide your main goal and purpose in life is being rich.
CARL WHITE
I would much rather waste my time discussing the meaning of life than waste my time discussing the l...
CARL WHITE
If looks and physical beauty do not matter why is everyone so offended if you tell them they are not...
CARL WHITE
I am convinced that only the very stupid and the very selfish have any hope for happiness.
CARL WHITE
In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.
CARL WHITE
Just because you can not explain something does not mean it does not have an explanation.
CARL WHITE
I find people that truly believe there is no God as arrogant as those that truly believe there is as...
CARL WHITE
The biggest lie in the world is that when people tell you that what they really want is for you to t...
CARL WHITE
They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say...
CARL R WHITE
Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.
CARL R WHITE
All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.
CARL R WHITE
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is how we let them really know us.
CARL R WHITE
Some say that a woman that trades her body for money is a whore, if that is the case, then a woman t...
CARL R WHITE
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha...
BARRY WHITE
People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I wo...
RON WHITE
I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
RON WHITE
The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant....
RON WHITE
I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
RON WHITE
When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
RON WHITE
Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
RON WHITE
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretch...
RON WHITE
I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
RON WHITE
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
RON WHITE
I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
RON WHITE
There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people w...
RON WHITE
The next time you have a thought... let it go.
RON WHITE
I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
RON WHITE
Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be...
RON WHITE
I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
RON WHITE
When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn't have much water in it. It was for drain...
RON WHITE
I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as th...
RON WHITE
Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!
RON WHITE
I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
RON WHITE
You can't fix stupid.
RON WHITE
I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply...
RON WHITE
I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
RON WHITE
A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
MIKE WHITE
The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. Th...
WAYNE WHITE
I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there does...
WAYNE WHITE
If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunn...
WAYNE WHITE
Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasi...
WAYNE WHITE
But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude o...
WAYNE WHITE
I feel for the players.
VANNA WHITE
So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the televis...
VANNA WHITE
There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we&...
VANNA WHITE
I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.
VANNA WHITE
I do everything that everybody else does.
VANNA WHITE
I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
VANNA WHITE
I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
VANNA WHITE
I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies...
VANNA WHITE
It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
VANNA WHITE
I'm really just a normal person.
VANNA WHITE
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ...
JACK WHITE
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th...
JACK WHITE
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...
JACK WHITE
I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri...
JACK WHITE
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ...
JACK WHITE
If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e...
JACK WHITE
We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s...
JACK WHITE
I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But...
JACK WHITE
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th...
JACK WHITE
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing...
JACK WHITE
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther...
JACK WHITE
Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ...
JACK WHITE
I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li...
JACK WHITE
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong...
JACK WHITE
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
JACK WHITE
When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h...
JACK WHITE
I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ...
JACK WHITE
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro...
JACK WHITE
There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&...
JACK WHITE
I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real...
JACK WHITE
Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skat...
SHAUN WHITE
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence ...
PATRICK WHITE
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and Germ...
PATRICK WHITE
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining ta...
PATRICK WHITE
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the...
PATRICK WHITE
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriag...
PATRICK WHITE
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the ...
PATRICK WHITE
Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose m...
PATRICK WHITE
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher...
PATRICK WHITE
When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whe...
PATRICK WHITE
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent f...
PATRICK WHITE
I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by ...
PATRICK WHITE
If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, ...
BETTY WHITE
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to ...
E.B. WHITE
This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent.
AIDAN WHITE
At a time when editorial independence needs to be defended, we find the closure of this newspaper sh...
AIDAN WHITE
There is a great deal of concern that there is a fundamentalist religiosity emerging that is demandi...
AIDAN WHITE
The media community is determined to create a meaningful dialogue that will improve understanding be...
AIDAN WHITE
Impunity in the killing of journalists remains the intolerable scandal of our times that can no long...
AIDAN WHITE
Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism. No journalist is safe once they take to the streets.
AIDAN WHITE
We are asking the government to intervene on behalf of all Canadians. CBC should be providing local ...
AIDAN WHITE
The Tunisian authorities continue to show intolerance of independent opinion and free expression. Bu...
AIDAN WHITE
No. That is not what I heard him say.
AIDAN WHITE
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITE
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as ...
BARRY WHITE
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITE
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my...
BARRY WHITE
People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE
I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me...
BARRY WHITE
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I...
BARRY WHITE
We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beg...
BARRY WHITE
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Tho...
BARRY WHITE
When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE
Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE
If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's ag...
SHAUN WHITE
I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place l...
SHAUN WHITE
Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad th...
MEG WHITE
It is amazing how generous people really are. This has really been a great thing.
ALAN WHITE
Our strategy is to focus on those areas where we can have a good competitive advantage, so we do thi...
ALAN WHITE
It's too bad that the taxpayers have to bear the brunt of additional bills,
ALAN WHITE
Obasanjo has absolutely no control over this guy, ... like a head of state down there.
ALAN WHITE
It is a great relief to finally have won our first game, especially against such a strong side as Ro...
ALAN WHITE
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
HALE WHITE
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art ...
HALE WHITE
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no dange...
HALE WHITE
If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been importe...
EDMUND WHITE
I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West...
EDMUND WHITE
If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to...
EDMUND WHITE
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends o...
EDMUND WHITE
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C...
EDMUND WHITE
Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, i...
EDMUND WHITE
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, a...
EDMUND WHITE
Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it...
EDMUND WHITE
I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it sho...
EDMUND WHITE
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
EDMUND WHITE
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has e...
EDMUND WHITE
Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goof...
EDMUND WHITE
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a ...
EDMUND WHITE
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That'...
EDMUND WHITE
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of...
EDMUND WHITE
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also t...
EDMUND WHITE
In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys,...
EDMUND WHITE
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I me...
EDMUND WHITE
Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned...
EDMUND WHITE
When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I s...
EDMUND WHITE
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
EDMUND WHITE
I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking...
RON WHITE
If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by my...
RON WHITE
I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
PATRICK WHITE
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the...
GILBERT WHITE
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point...
EDMUND WHITE
We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools o...
T.H. WHITE
It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot affo...
T.H. WHITE