Steve Earle Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
-
I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'
-
The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.
-
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
-
I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.
-
Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
-
I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
-
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
-
I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.
-
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
-
Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.
-
Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.
-
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
-
I would not have you follow me, but walk at my side.
-
I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.
-
I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.
-
If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
