Jason Isbell Quotes
I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.
Quotes to Explore
-
The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
-
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
-
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
-
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
-
You must prune dead or dying wood.
-
The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
-
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
-
I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.
-
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
-
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
-
I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
-
If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
-
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
-
There is not love where there is no will.
-
Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
-
I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
-
In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
-
I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
-
The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if you cannot begin to get a glimpse of their meaning. Your wings are being developed.
-
I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition.
-
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
-
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
-
No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.
-
I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.
