Carl Perkins Quotes

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

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• I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Control

• When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • She
  • Together
  • Friend

• If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.

  

  Mahavira
  • Character
  • Want
  • Effort

• I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

  

  Mae West
  • You
  • Always
  • Diary

• I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Death
  • September
  • Innocence

• Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Country
  • America
  • Future

• A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • World
  • Like
  • More

• A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Poet

• The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Find
  • Racism

• IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Think
  • Modern

• I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Quite
  • Carefully
  • Curate

• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Effort

• When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Parents
  • Change
  • Gay

• I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Peace
  • Myself
  • Shoes

• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • Democracy
  • For Him

• I wrote the books I should have liked to read. That's always been my reason for writing. People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Writing

• It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Believe
  • Happy

• What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Name
  • Amber
  • Cinnamon

• When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Theory
  • Nervous
  • Confusion

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Name
  • Honey
  • Knock