Billy Joe Shaver Quotes

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

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• And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Sex

• Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Children
  • Feeling
  • Wanted

• I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Analog
  • Slide-Rule

• The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • People
  • Words
  • Destiny

• When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • World
  • Looking

• On my foot it says, 'The best is yet to come,' and that's there because I really believe it.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Foot

• Well Im back in your good graces again Remember when you told me that I was your only friend?

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Friend

• Between 'there is a God' and 'there is no God' lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great effort. A Russian knows one or other of these two extremes, and the middle tract between them does not interest him; and therefore he usually knows nothing, or very little. (Diary, 1897)

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Great
  • God
  • Effort

• Maybe baby I'll have you,Maybe baby you'll be true.Maybe baby I'll have you for me. (All for me)It's funny honey you don't care-a-are,You never listen to my prayer-a-yer,Maybe baby you will love me someday (someday).

  

  Buddy Holly
  • True
  • Funny
  • Prayer

• One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make it as rich and as stunning as it looks. We can't cut any corners.

  

  Mark Addy

• You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.

  

  Agustin Castillo
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Future

• One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Stop
  • Compassion

• Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

  

  Claire Tomalin

• Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

  

  Bobby Hull
  • Done
  • True
  • Guy

• Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

  

  Philip Guedalla
  • Game
  • Hunting

• When I was working, there was no digital. We actually worked; we used Polaroids.

  

  Alek Wek

• We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

  

  Craig L. Thomas
  • Home
  • War

• We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.

  

  Colin Cooper
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Professional

• Growing up, I would say, when we were racing go-karts back in the day, it was always our uncle. We were always looking up to our uncle. I mean, he won the Daytona 500, he's a very well-respected man, and we've always looked up to that.

  

  Amber Cope
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Uncle

• When we need a policeman, God bless 'em, they're there. But, if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, everything seems suspicious.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Time
  • God

• I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

  

  Billy Joe Shaver