Jason Isbell Quotes

When I joined the Truckers, I was 21 and riding in the van with guys who were a generation older than me.

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• Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Power
  • House

• I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Know
  • Proud

• Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Desire

• Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • People
  • Women
  • Parents

• I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Same

• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Ambition

• My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Country
  • Growing

• We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Stand
  • U.S.

• I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Russia

• The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Why
  • Ideas
  • Language

• Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Truth
  • Voice
  • Start

• And his money he cannot eat.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money

• I looked like this when I was young, and I still do.

  

  Yogi Berra

• They married well because the marriage-place Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell. They were love’s characters come face to face.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heaven
  • Marriage

• A mellow understanding of life and of human nature is, and always has been, the Chinese ideal of character, and from that understanding other qualities are derived, such as pacifism, contentment, calm and strength of endurance which distinguish the Chinese character.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Character
  • Nature

• My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?

  

  Paula Creamer
  • People
  • Job

• Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Faith

• There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Night
  • Celebrity
  • Saturday

• Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Art
  • Myself

• I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important
  • Thought
  • Cancer

• Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

  

  Mark Vonnegut
  • Life
  • Art
  • Luck

• When I joined the Truckers, I was 21 and riding in the van with guys who were a generation older than me.

  

  Jason Isbell