Joanna Southcott Quotes
Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
Quotes to Explore
-
My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
-
Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
-
You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
-
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
-
There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
-
I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
-
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
-
I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
-
Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
-
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
-
I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
-
What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
-
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
-
If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
-
The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
-
I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
-
People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is unique in this aspect because a thousandths-of-an-inch mistake can cause spectacular failures.
-
For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
-
I wouldn't call what I do 'dance.'
-
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
-
I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.
-
Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.
-
I was always interested in creative writing growing up. From junior high on, I was writing short stories. I also grew up watching movies. My father would take me to everything. Most weeks, I could open the paper having seen every movie listed.
-
Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
