Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes

I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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• My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • She
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• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Birthday
  • Celebrate

• Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Money
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• India should be an exporter of technology.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Technology
  • Should
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• God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.

  

  Barbara Lynn
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  • God
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• The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better
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• Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Looks

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • Risk
  • Meaning

• When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Care
  • Body

• So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Character
  • Happiness
  • Side

• To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Taken

• I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Filmmaking

• Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Moment
  • Creation
  • Movement

• I enjoy being in Toronto - there's lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods - but Vancouver is still home and always will be. I miss going for walks on the ocean with beautiful mountains.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Different
  • Home
  • Beautiful

• I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Laugh

• The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Pretty
  • Attention
  • Organization

• What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • People
  • Heart
  • Song

• I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Blow

• The path that is best for you is the path that keeps the best of you in play.

  

  Bernie De Koven
  • Play
  • Path

• You need to get up early and get started, ... That's nice too. You don't have to sit and wait all day long for the game to come. I would anticipate us to come out ready to play and fired up and be real aggressive. Of course, they are going to be a real good football team too so it will probably be a real good battle.

  

  Bobby Petrino
  • Game
  • Play
  • Battle

• Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Sex
  • Killed
  • Jail

• Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Succeed

• I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!

  

  Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Play
  • Jail
  • Finesse