Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes
Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.
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After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.
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If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
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You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—
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Little known fact, or not a little known fact actually - that Prince is a Gemini.
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There is a complete lack of timely and reliable information for both competitors and consumers.
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I certainly, to this day, believe I did everything I needed to do to get my degree.
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Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.
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I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.
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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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A women could never be President. A condidate must be over 35, and where are you going to find a woman who will admit she's over 35?
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The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.
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The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
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Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.
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The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.
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If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
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Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara - things that you probably shouldn't like.
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Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.
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They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.
