Billy Cannon Quotes

Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

Billy Cannon

• Survival
• Hills
• Grapes
• Vines

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sweet
  • Worst
  • Sweets

• War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • War
  • Pretty
  • Pain

• I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Wish
  • Christian
  • I Wish

• I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Funny

• My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?

  

  Eminem
  • Down
  • Middle
  • Wave

• To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?

  

  Burnie Burns
  • World
  • Game
  • Amazing

• My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Character

• Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Today
  • Growing
  • Service

• Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Value
  • Safety

• Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Different
  • Fighting
  • Pride

• The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.

  

  David Farr
  • Heart
  • Fun

• The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Life
  • Different
  • Earth

• 'Breaking Away' was a great experience. It's the kind of movie that engenders a lot of goodwill from people.

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.

  

  David Lauren
  • Great
  • Job
  • Style

• People who know me know that I'm a rabid fan of the Kansas Jayhawks. My quirky habit is that every Kansas game is on my calendar, and, more often than not, I will plan and schedule flights around them so that I can engage and watch. I have already brainwashed my family to be Jayhawks fans.

  

  Brad Garlinghouse
  • People
  • Family
  • Game

• And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

  

  Matt Stone
  • America
  • Fun
  • Funny

• Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.

  

  Leila Janah
  • True
  • Style

• The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.

  

  Clive Davis
  • People
  • Song
  • Garden

• Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

  

  John Keble
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Why

• One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • World
  • Mind
  • Simple

• When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Real
  • Character

• People think immigration is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Immigration
  • Complex
  • I Don't Know

• Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

  

  Billy Cannon
  • Survival
  • Hills
  • Grapes