Ingram Cecil Connor III (Gram Parsons) Quotes

We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.

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• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • School
  • Thing
  • Athletics

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Better

• I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Drinking

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Hope
  • Say
  • Competitive

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Love
  • House

• Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Where
  • Commerce

• Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Live
  • Want
  • Uncomfortable

• When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • Change
  • Start

• I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Time
  • Long
  • Down

• Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Know
  • Question
  • Sometimes

• I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Eyes
  • Lion
  • Sheep

• I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Energy

• My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Art
  • Father
  • Child

• We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • May
  • Small
  • Optimistic

• I have as many pairs of sneakers as I have shoes.

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • Shoes

• I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out - 'Ride Along,' 'Grudge Match,' 'About Last Night,' 'Think Like a Man Too' - are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• He could have been an engineer and he would have been a great one, but he decided to be a catcher and he was a good one. Then he decided to be a bench coach and he was a good one. Now he is going to be a manager and he is going to be a good one.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Good
  • Great
  • Manager

• It turns you into two people: one of you's very nice, you'll go up to total strangers and say, 'Come in, come in, sit down, for God's sake, have something. Have my bed.' And then you'll go up to people you've known and loved all your life and say, 'Get the fuck out of my house! Go on, get out! And leave a tip!'

  

  Dylan Moran
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.

  

  Ingram Cecil Connor III The Byrds
  • Great
  • Wear
  • Sequins