Steve Earle Quotes

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

Steve Earle

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• In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Day

• In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Football

• I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Father

• Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Day

• I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Always
  • Gift
  • Suspicious

• They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.

  

  Edmund Burke

• If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Equality

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• The gratification you feel from making tangible progress while running is just about unparalleled, so I understand why people love it. But it's also hard, grueling work. Those feel-good benefits have to be earned four to five times a week.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.

  

  Alice Greczyn
  • People
  • Time
  • Alone

• The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Truth
  • Age

• People like me, DJs and producers, have a bigger say and a bigger voice than we've ever had before.

  

  Diplo
  • People

• We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

  

  Constance Baker Motley

• When you turn 60, the key is to not stop moving. Once you start to stop moving, you rust. You got to just keep going.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Stop
  • Moving

• I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson like my brother as well. We both tend to take the mickey a bit much.

  

  Prince William
  • Brother
  • Grandson

• Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.

  

  Charles Duhigg

• There are no instant solutions.

  

  James Callaghan

• You know, I think in the world of creativity there will always be risk. Whatever you do. Because creativity is something that is very personal, very individual. I may think that I am doing something great, you may not think that or the public outside may not think that, and you have an opinion.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • World
  • Great
  • May

• This is all strictly against regulations, of course, and Marie-Claude should never have asked you in. And naturally, I should have turned you out the second I knew you were here. But Marie-Claude doesn't care much for their regulations these days, and I must say, neither do I.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro

• A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Car
  • Broken
  • Cat

• Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Water
  • Retarded
  • Retard