Ingram Cecil Connor III (Gram Parsons) Quotes

Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues.

Ingram Cecil Connor III The Byrds

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• It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Model
  • Grow

• Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Goals
  • Sense
  • Places

• Some media outlets refer to 'protesters' and 'militia members,' not 'terrorists,' even though armed antigovernment extremists seizing federal property and expressing a desire to kill and die is a textbook description of domestic terrorism.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Die
  • Desire
  • Media

• I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Long
  • Live

• Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Help
  • Economy
  • Gratitude

• So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Women
  • Home
  • Perfect

• Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • High
  • Know
  • Guys

• We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

  

  Eddie Obeng
  • Time
  • World
  • Understand

• He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Bored
  • England
  • Only

• I've always had really messy hair.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Messy

• I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Myself
  • Lyrics
  • Go

• We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with, and to an extent, that's good.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Age

• The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • American
  • War
  • You

• My son calls another man daddy He'll never know my name nor my face God only knows how it hurts me for another to be in my place

  

  Hank Williams
  • God
  • Son
  • Daddy

• I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Glory
  • Posterity
  • Sroud

• The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Business
  • Doctor
  • Gentlemen

• Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Happiness
  • Expression

• We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Game
  • Industry
  • Romanticize

• The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Best
  • Behavior
  • Blues

• Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Artists
  • Rock N Roll
  • Blues

• Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues.

  

  Ingram Cecil Connor III The Byrds
  • Blues
  • Mornings
  • Evenings