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

• I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Working
  • Captain
  • Waiter

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

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Worse
  • Attack

• 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

• In a professional service environment, you often work on one engagement or deal after another, with one ending before the next begins.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Service

• People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • America
  • Lost
  • Religious

• Without an anti-environment, all environments are invisible. (p. 33)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Environment

• Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Cowardice

• 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