Cruse's Quotes

#1. My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.

Rashid Johnson

#2. People are just people, no matter where you go.

Rick D. Jolly

#3. The decline of religious belief,which has all sorts of effects on morals and even on politics because religion has been a tool of politics. But today in Europe it ceases to be a tool, it has very little influence in determining political decisions -

Will Durant

#4. Personal integrity comes from integrating our life experiences with our belief systems

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

#5. The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.

Charles Reznikoff

#6. Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.

Donna Lynn Hope

#7. You can only cruse the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.

Thomas Pynchon

#8. I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt.

Peter O'Toole

#9. America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one-it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo-Saxons and Protestants.

Harold Cruse

#10. Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?"
A smile soared across my face.
"As high as I possibly can.

Kenneth Oppel

#11. Dog training should not be a chore!

Tony Cruse

#12. Is there anything you can't do, Mr. Cruse?" she said.
"I can't sing," I said.

Kenneth Oppel

#13. I always write a story in one sitting.

Katherine Anne Porter

#14. Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually solidifying into a crystal of extraordinary rigidity. Eventually it will fade out completely, merging quietly into the blackness of space.

Paul Davies

#15. Pleased to meet you," Tellin says, shaking me out of my reverie. "Lily told me much about you last weekend."
"Funny." Quince throws me a questioning glance. "She didn't mention you at all.

Tera Lynn Childs

#16. We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas ... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables.

Ramez Naam

#17. It's important to come to know that this is all there is. There isn't something to attain, there is only something to be.

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

#18. Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

Michelle MacLaren

#19. One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

Jacob Bronowski

#20. Why do you need to fly so much?" she asked.
"If I don't, it'll catch up with me." The words just came out.
"What will?"
I took my hands from my face, panting. I stared out at the storm.
"Unhappiness.

Kenneth Oppel

#21. Right and wrong has never been obscure. It is as clear as the future.

Andreas Laurencius

#22. Now you know how I justify my addictions - if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.

Karen Marie Moning

#23. The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented Improving Academic Achievement Study.

Del Siegle

#24. I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.

Kyra Davis

#25. Nadira gave Kate a long hard look. "Mr. Slater has the ship. Mr. Cruse has the coordinates. I have the key. What exactly do you have?"
For the first time Kate looked flustered.

Kenneth Oppel