Merle Travis Quotes

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Merle Travis

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• I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Wise
  • Back

• Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Consciousness
  • Level
  • Arises

• I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Peace

• The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • America
  • Idea
  • Newborn

• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Virtue
  • Patriotism
  • Vicious

• All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Death
  • Day
  • Criticism

• I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Thought

• I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Think
  • Animal
  • Share

• Sometimes I hate a shoe in seconds.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Sometimes
  • Shoe

• I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Wrong
  • Frustration

• I try to get to the gym whenever I can, eat healthy, mostly protein and vegetables, avoid processed sugar and minimize carbs, but I don't feel like I need to go crazy if I want pasta now and then.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Crazy
  • Healthy
  • Gym

• All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Personality
  • Laughter

• Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Habit

• God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • God

• What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.

  

  Bono U2
  • Night
  • City
  • Mistake

• Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Honor

• Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • People
  • Country

• I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Fall

• We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • People
  • Power

• When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Writing
  • Help
  • Reading

• When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Home
  • Way
  • Play

• When John Travolta had the opportunity to do The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, he brought me and a couple other people from the movie to just be the students and have some parts, because he wanted to help us out. I thought that was really sweet.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • People
  • Movie
  • Help

• Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Father
  • Morning
  • Sun

• I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

  

  Merle Travis
  • Sweet
  • Hunger
  • Bitterness