Steve Earle Quotes

I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.

Steve Earle

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• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Architecture
  • Republican

• Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Attack
  • Worse

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• I just have an inability to lie.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Just
  • Lie
  • Inability

• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Progress

• I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Disappointment

• We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Environment
  • Development

• It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Time
  • You
  • Easy

• We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Positive
  • Try
  • Optimism

• It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Poetry

• My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Childhood

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

• Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Faith

• The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Wonder

• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Day

• 'Ali' is the story of a lower middle-class golfer who becomes a champion. I find the game very interesting and would like to continue playing it regularly after the movie is wrapped up.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Game

• For some reason, we've just lost it. I know we still have it. Everyone has got to find it.

  

  Ashley Smith
  • Lost
  • Reason

• I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Reason
  • Constitution

• I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • You
  • Always
  • Yourself

• Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

  

  Bernard de Mandeville
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.

  

  Steve Earle
  • May
  • Hands
  • Fingers