Joe E. Lewis Quotes

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

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• I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Dead

• I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Love

• People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Women
  • You

• Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Thinking
  • Stupid
  • Red

• Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Death
  • You
  • Advice

• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Age

• We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Mind
  • End

• Music was sort of my thing at first.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Music
  • First
  • Sort

• Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power keep forcing people to opposite corners to prepare for a fight instead of coming together to get things done.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Done
  • Power

• The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Nature
  • Never
  • Doors

• I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Question

• Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Music
  • Politics
  • Human

• When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Expectations
  • State
  • Governments

• In cases of rape, trying to prevent pregnancies is obviously the best thing. The morning-after pill works successfully most of the time. Ultimately we do better if we do have better education about family planning.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Family

• Data is the new oil.

  

  Kevin Plank

• If 50 million people say a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing.

  

  David Severn
  • Stupid
  • Thing
  • Million

• There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Comparison
  • Unbearable
  • Lightness

• I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

  

  Joe E. Lewis