Stanley Crouch Quotes

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

Stanley Crouch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1945

Topics

TimePersonalitySchoolStrongYou

The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts.

Jessica Valenti

FamilyChildrenBestTalkingLong

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

John Polkinghorne

HopeExperienceStartThinkReality

To me, it is like a diabetic with insulin. If that diabetic stops taking insulin, they will die, and I believe that if I don't follow the 12-step programme, I will regress, and that could eventually be the death of me.

Trinny Woodall

DeathMeBelieveDieWillFollow

As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with bringing European civilization to the Western Hemisphere, deserves the national holiday enacted by Congress in 1934.

Tom Tancredo

ManI AmThinkHolidayImmigrants

If Mayweather wants to come over and fight in the UFC, then do it. It's hardcore here, though. I don't think it'll be a stroll in the park. Granted, he's the best boxer ever seen, just about.

Robert Whittaker

BestFightThinkOverParkHere

Prenatal education can only be an unconscious result of what the parents, particularly the mother, do. If, until the child is born, the mother acts in such a way that she expresses what is morally and intellectually correct, then what she accomplishes in her own continuing education will transfer to the child.

Rudolf Steiner

EducationMotherChildParentsBorn

When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.

Josh Turner

BusinessMeEasyNobodyNowFirst

The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.

Jason Clarke

LoveLove IsGuyReadI Love

I think the most important thing is to always clean your face and ensure your make-up comes off at night. Going to bed with make-up is just so bad for your skin.

Doutzen Kroes

NightFaceThinkBadSkinImportant

Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.

Chris Hayes

KindWayFairOwnEverySentence

While I support making improvements in the Affordable Care Act, trying to enact them while holding the government and our economic recovery hostage is reckless and irresponsible.

Brad Schneider

GovernmentSupportCareTryingAct

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

Philip Yancey

GoodNewBeingUsMotivesHigher

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