The largest website for English phrases and quotes

The largest website for English phrases and quotes

Category: W. Bruce Cameron

W. Bruce Cameron

I’ve always thought that I’d make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I’d have to be one of those officers who work in ‘do not shoot’ areas.

W. Bruce Cameron

When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it’s as if you owe yourself the other half – what’s known in medical circles as a ‘caloric deficit.’

Yourself, Chocolate, You

W. Bruce Cameron

My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you’re going through a bad period, and you just can’t see the world’s on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you’re missing the whole point of the experience. And that’s something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

Day, Experience, Myself

W. Bruce Cameron

With my book ‘How to Remodel a Man,’ I was on ‘Oprah,’ ‘Fox News,’ ‘The Early Show,’ and ‘Good Morning America.’ ‘Oprah’ was the best – an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it’s over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

Good, Best, America

W. Bruce Cameron

I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports – basketball, for example, is an activity that I’ll spend many hours a week watching.

Winter, I Am, Week

W. Bruce Cameron

I don’t think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I’m pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.

Dreams, Good, Father

W. Bruce Cameron

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father’s view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

Father, Lie, Child

W. Bruce Cameron

pg. 301–“Saturday the weather couldn’t decide if it was ready to fully entertain winter or if we were still stuck in the fall.”pg.349–“…winter showed up in an angry, punishing fury…

weather, winter

W. Bruce Cameron

You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.

W. Bruce Cameron

Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.

W. Bruce Cameron

My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.

dogs, dogs-loyalty, love, love-from-a-dog, loyal, sad, sadness, sorrow

W. Bruce Cameron

My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.

dogs, dogs-loyalty, love, love-from-a-dog, loyal, sad, sadness, sorrow