Jason Isbell Quotes

There was a point when I told my daddy I didn't want to go hunting anymore.

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• The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Experience
  • You
  • Words

• Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Great
  • Look
  • New

• What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Rule
  • Student
  • Diary

• I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Wealth

• Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Team
  • Kind

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Help

• Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Great
  • Media
  • Clothes

• I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • People
  • Strong
  • Funny

• It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Wisdom
  • Soil
  • Seed

• We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • End
  • Work Ethic

• 'Do you love him?' Maura asked curiously.'I'd rather not,' Blue replied.'He has lots of negative qualities I can help you hone in on,' her mother offered.'I'm already aware of them. Infinitely.'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Help
  • Mother
  • Blue

• You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Time
  • Wise

• In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Real

• Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Pretty
  • Dark
  • Drama

• I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Song

• I've never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton... and at the same time, no less! I'm not one to be at a loss for words, and that was a moment when I really was speechless. It was a big, big night.

  

  Megan Hilty
  • Life
  • Time
  • Night

• My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It's fun to tour with a buddy and somebody that I just enjoy hanging out with. If we weren't touring together, we'd be hunting in the off-season still and knocking around doing stuff, certainly.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Together

• Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

  

  Ric Keller
  • Swimming
  • Americans
  • Hunting

• I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Happen

• Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires.

  

  Barbara Pease
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Belief

• There was a point when I told my daddy I didn't want to go hunting anymore.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Hunting