Jason Isbell Quotes

I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs.

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• I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Creative
  • Most

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • Friendship
  • Anger

• And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Opportunities

• Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Food
  • Hug

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
  • Different
  • Guy

• 'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Life
  • My Life
  • First

• Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Problems
  • Self

• I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Friends
  • Song

• I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • People
  • Feel
  • Ways

• The plans and schemes of tyrants are broken by many things. They shatter against cliffs of heroic struggle. They rupture on reefs of open resistance. And they are slowly eroded, bit by little bit, on the very beaches where they measure triumph, by countless grains of sand. By the stubborn little decencies of humble little men.

  

  Eric Flint
  • Men
  • Struggle
  • Broken

• A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Him

• Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Time
  • Truth

• Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Believe
  • Always
  • Marriage

• I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Life
  • Country