While Quotes

I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.