Earl Scruggs Quotes

I like drums, really, if they're under control.

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• When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Fun
  • Control

• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Like
  • Cleaning

• I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • Think
  • Hand

• But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Place
  • Playing

• I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Control
  • Support

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Water
  • Evil
  • Like

• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Control
  • Red
  • Difficult

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Like
  • Crime
  • Plague

• I really am a cockeyed optimist.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Really
  • Optimist
  • Am

• I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Show

• The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Experience
  • Like
  • Summer

• I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • Him

• Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Really
  • Table
  • Dining

• Love, and do what you like.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • You
  • Like

• There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Wall

• I'm usually taking my charges on somebody driving to the basket out of control and their momentum is coming toward me. Whereas the Big Guy is just taking one step back and guys are falling. He doesn't really even have enough momentum to charge those guys.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Control
  • Momentum
  • Basket

• Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Everything

• Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • War
  • Government
  • Propaganda

• The fans [of Vampire diaries] that we have now are the people who will watch it any day of the week. So, my first instinct was a little bit of an ego tap, but the second I processed it, I was fine. The only weird thing will be maybe not having as many people live tweeting because they're actually out doing something more interesting on Friday night. I'm not going to sit at home, reading Twitter on Friday night.

  

  Caroline Dries
  • Home
  • Friday
  • Twitter

• I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.

  

  B. B. King
  • Trying
  • Home
  • Down

• I like drums, really, if they're under control.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Control
  • Like
  • Really