Charlie Daniels Quotes

If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - "Well, I'm going to write about a thing.

Charlie Daniels

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• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola

• Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • House
  • Me
  • Kind

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Live
  • Decision
  • Religious

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Society
  • Satisfied
  • Top

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Me
  • Laugh
  • Jokes

• I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Help

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Interested

• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Learn

• I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

  

  Acker Bilk
  • Enjoy
  • Still
  • Alright

• I am a businessman.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Businessman

• The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Compassion

• I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Day
  • Back
  • Pattern

• Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they’d be laughed out of the company.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men

• I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Live
  • Forever

• Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Everyday

• In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Presidential

• If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - "Well, I'm going to write about a thing.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • May