Dwight Yoakam Quotes

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

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• I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Home
  • Start
  • Talking

• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • War
  • Tragedy

• She's been on more laps than a napkin.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • She
  • More
  • Been

• My personality is extremely unbalanced.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Personality
  • Unbalanced

• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Fashion

• When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Die
  • Ship

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Opinion
  • Drawing

• Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Free
  • Serious
  • Within

• As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Science
  • Religious
  • Talent

• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Song
  • Man
  • Dance

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • True
  • Help
  • Alone

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Song
  • Sea

• N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

  

  Nas
  • New York
  • Brave
  • Hip Hop

• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Question
  • Never

• I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Same

• Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness...Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile...Not a single one but has at some time wept.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Single

• With all this bulk there's nothing lost in Og,For every inch that is not fool is rogue :A monstrous mass of fuul corrupted matter,As all the devils had spew'd to make the baiter.When wine has given him courage to blaspheme,He curses God, but God before curst him ;And, if man could have reason, none has more.That made his paunch so rich, and him so poor.

  

  John Dryden
  • God
  • Lost
  • Courage

• Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Life
  • Remember

• Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.

  

  Daniel Beaty
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • Thoughts