Hodding Carter III famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.
I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.
I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.

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