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.

Ingram Cecil Connor III The Byrds

• Great
• Wear
• Sequins

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• 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

• Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Health

• 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

• There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

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

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• 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

• I knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extremely selfish and cocky, and I thought: 'Hey, if I like it, everyone's gonna like it.' Well, it came to fruition, and I chose a character that was not a far departure from myself at all.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Character
  • Selfish
  • Cocky

• Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

  

  Pau Gasol
  • Great
  • Accomplishment

• I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Family
  • Soul

• I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • World
  • Stills
  • Needed

• We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we've created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• 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