Edie Brickell Quotes

Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.

Edie Brickell

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Marriage
  • Clothes
  • Worst

• A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Want
  • Me
  • Fall

• Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Fear
  • Excited
  • Maybe

• I think I'm very old-fashioned.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Think
  • Very
  • Old-fashioned

• I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Writing
  • Reader

• I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Right

• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Best
  • Story

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • War
  • Environment

• It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Change
  • Peace
  • Agreement

• No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Women
  • Question
  • Crazy

• Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Different
  • Cartoons
  • Static

• And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • War
  • Socialism

• It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Unseen

• There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • People
  • Up

• I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

  

  Katie Couric
  • Fun

• I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Emotional

• I and Nicky have got a lot of disagreements, but they are nearly always associated to music. Because we both are very strong-willing persons, we might sit in the opposite corners in the studio argueing about things. One does never know beforehand, whose idea works the best way.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Music
  • Strong

• If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Vaccines
  • Epidemic

• Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.

  

  Edie Brickell