Chris Crutcher quote: "Experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them?"

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Fr...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better b...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've wr...
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Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Sh...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined t...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-clas...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a d...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writi...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

(The Michigan district) used it as an all-school reader, ... Sophomores, juniors and seniors were re...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.
CHRIS CRUTCHER

My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important les...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

I'm sorry. I can't do this. I thought I could but I can't. My favorite professor at the university s...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Love in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one on one se...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .”
Beca...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

The distances across that atom, in relative measure, are the same as the distances across the univer...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

There isn't an entity in the universe that does not know about love.
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Tonight sometime the full reality will dawn on him, but he's like me: the guy you want at the site w...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

The only truly ruined people are those who believe they are.
CHRIS CRUTCHER

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let a...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.
CHRIS CRUTCHER

So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .”

CHRIS CRUTCHER

If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.
CHRIS CRUTCHER

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one s...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spit...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird&#...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is no...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Leave me alone, you big fat shitburger!
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Does anyone in this room have it?"
"No, Chris, no one here has it."
"How do you know?"
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learn...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

I know the answer to the question now, by the way: why bad things happen to good people and good thi...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

It's easy to look back and say if things had been perfect, I could have accommodated all of those th...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testame...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represe...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

It's the scene in the book that probably gets the most attention, ... The biggest problem is that sh...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
CHRIS CRUTCHER

She thought if she could get the color off, her daddy would love her, ... She didn't get to eat with...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Nothing exists without its opposite.
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know any...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially becaus...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. T...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

When the sun rises in the morning and sets in the night. When the moon comes into sight from the eas...
CHRIS

Love that never stoped. That grew with each tear drop, with each fight. With endless nights talking ...
CHRIS

Only true love will make it through the wicked world.
CHRIS

Curiosity killed the cat, then it came back eight more times to try it again.
CHRIS

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.
CHRIS ROCK

Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Tr...
CHRIS RIDDELL

I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin...
CHRIS PINE

I had a beard way before it was fashionable.
CHRIS STAPLETON

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.
CHRIS JERICHO

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, &#...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Being a superhero is a lot of fun.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. An...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Strong female leads are important.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It'...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I'm for comfort, not for style.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I like to explore things.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it&#...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hamm...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a mi...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd n...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for ot...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

For me, life is about experience and being a good person.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ...
CHRIS PAUL

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a cer...
CHRIS PINE

I've always been the type of guy that wants to change, adapt and morph from year to year.
CHRIS JERICHO

If my son is happy, then I am happy.
CHRIS PAUL

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
CHRIS ROCK

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying ...
CHRIS ROCK

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the res...
CHRIS ROCK

If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.
CHRIS ROCK

Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Ro...
CHRIS ROCK

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.
CHRIS ROCK

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjo...
CHRIS ROCK

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at th...
CHRIS ROCK

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with s...
CHRIS ROCK

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star o...
CHRIS ROCK

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.
CHRIS ROCK

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.
CHRIS ROCK

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'C...
CHRIS ROCK

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whol...
CHRIS ROCK

Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, ...
CHRIS ROCK

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she'...
CHRIS ROCK

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver cou...
CHRIS ROCK

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except...
CHRIS CORNELL

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
CHRIS LOWE

I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes...
CHRIS ROCK

There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
CHRIS FUSSELL

The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age, we can su...
CHRIS FUSSELL

I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because...
CHRIS PINE

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen,...
CHRIS EVANS

I don't appreciate Internet cyber bullying at all. It's not fair. With me, it gets hard beca...
CHRIS STOKES

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th...
CHRIS BROWN

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that rea...
CHRIS PINE

It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other fo...
CHRIS MILK

It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with tha...
CHRIS ROCK

We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premise...
CHRIS PAVONE

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes ba...
CHRIS PINE

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go...
CHRIS O'DOWD

I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I ha...
CHRIS MESSINA

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to ...
CHRIS PINE

In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
CHRIS FUSSELL

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, act...
CHRIS JERICHO

There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spande...
CHRIS JERICHO

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so gr...
CHRIS EVANS

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 millio...
CHRIS CORNELL

I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I sti...
CHRIS LOWELL

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath a...
CHRIS CORNELL

The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also...
CHRIS HEDGES

Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his a...
CHRIS HEDGES

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power ...
CHRIS HEDGES

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a bas...
CHRIS EVANS

I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Ex...
CHRIS SACCA

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, ...
CHRIS BROWN

I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so ...
CHRIS HARDWICK

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most s...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle...
CHRIS PRATT

I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I...
CHRIS SACCA

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.
CHRIS HART

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community co...
CHRIS ROCK

We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS

In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS

What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to...
CHRIS HARDWICK

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra...
CHRIS MARTIN

Funny enough, the person who is most bummed out to hear I won't be back is Mark Cuban. Despite w...
CHRIS SACCA

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don'...
CHRIS PINE

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find my...
CHRIS LEDOUX

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tel...
CHRIS PINE

China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting ...
CHRIS SMITH

So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It'...
CHRIS CARTER

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
CHRIS WALLACE

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right...
CHRIS ELLIOTT

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think m...
CHRIS KATTAN

2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bun...
CHRIS SACCA

I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up t...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionate...
CHRIS HADFIELD

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid ...
CHRIS MARTIN

A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many ...
CHRIS PAVONE

I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's ...
CHRIS RIDDELL

Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, ...
CHRIS KILHAM

2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually u...
CHRIS LARSEN

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And th...
CHRIS EVANS

Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because eve...
CHRIS MONEYMAKER

We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in te...
CHRIS CORNELL

We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted t...
CHRIS WEDGE

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.
CHRIS PRATT

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers...
CHRIS CHOCOLA

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d...
CHRIS LOWE

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really...
CHRIS CORNELL

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actor...
CHRIS MESSINA

It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shir...
CHRIS SQUIRE

If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everyt...
CHRIS JERICHO

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1...
CHRIS ANDERSON

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu...
CHRIS MATTHEWS

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
CHRIS PINE

I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK

I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getti...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as co...
CHRIS MARTIN

'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breat...
CHRIS PAVONE

I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup...
CHRIS YOUNG

Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, ...
CHRIS HADFIELD

The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people ...
CHRIS O'DONNELL

Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.
CHRIS BURKMENN

'Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have...
CHRIS PINE

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or &#...
CHRIS WARE

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled tot...
CHRIS MARTIN

Keep your enemies in front of you
CHRIS MATTHEWS

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the sim...
CHRIS ABANI

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.
CHRIS BRADFORD

There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
CHRIS HEIMERDINGER

Experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them?

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Experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them?

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