Iris DeMent Quotes
Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by,It's so hard to make every note bend just right.You lay down the hours and leave not one traceBut a tune for the dancing is there in it's place.
Iris DeMent
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
B. B. King
The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
Natalie Dormer
Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
Taya Kyle
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
Orhan Pamuk
I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
Oksana Baiul
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
Barbara Bush
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
Quincy Jones
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
T. J. Miller
As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
Barry Ritholtz
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
Gavyn Davies
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Classic grooming behavior, Dr. Walid told me later, something our fellow primates indulge in to maintain troop cohesion. Dr. Walid said human beings use language for the same purpose—which is why you find yourself talking total bollocks to people you meet at a bus stop and then wonder what the fuck did I do that for?
Ben Aaronovitch
I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
Frances McDormand
O, how wretchedIs that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,More pangs and fears than wars and women have;And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,Never to hope again.
Prince
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS THE ROSE'S FRAGRANCE.
B. B. Warfield
Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by,It's so hard to make every note bend just right.You lay down the hours and leave not one traceBut a tune for the dancing is there in it's place.
Iris DeMent
