Allan Stratton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
-
Golf is not easy.
-
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
-
I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
-
Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
-
Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.
-
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
-
Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
-
Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
-
The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
-
This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
-
I always like to work with really good filmmakers and really good actors.
-
In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.
-
I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
-
I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.
-
Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.
-
I'm not a starstuck dude. I've been in this game too long for that, but I do respect and acknowledge real work and real work ethic.
-
When you watch these reality shows, the person that is hated on the most is usually the one that gets the most shine.
-
I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.
-
A guy who didn’t have the guts to run for president. Little Michael. He doesn’t know anything about me. But he never had the guts to run. He probably wished he did but he didn’t. He spent millions of dollars on polling but he was missing one thing: guts. Little Michael.
-
In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
-
Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
-
Don't have time for memories, too busy making them.
