Jerry Coleman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
-
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
-
I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
-
Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
-
In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
-
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
-
My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
-
I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
-
You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
-
My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
-
Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
-
'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
-
It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
-
I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
-
In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
-
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
-
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
-
One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
-
The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.
-
Many of the fights that are going on are not ones that the United States has either started or have a role in. The Shia-- Sunni split, the dictatorships that have suppressed people's aspirations, the increasing globalization without any real safety valve for people to have a better life. We saw that in Egypt. We saw a dictator overthrown, we saw Muslim Brotherhood president installed and then we saw him ousted and the army back.
-
I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
-
I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.
-
War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.
-
McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.
