Edwin McCain Quotes

Smiling just to see the smile upon your face. These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive.

Edwin McCain

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• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Different
  • Relationships

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Death
  • Musicians

• I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Why
  • Always

• I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Group

• But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Book
  • History
  • Beautiful

• Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • People
  • Home
  • Kids

• I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Hope

• Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Energy
  • Caring
  • Lifting

• I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Work
  • Proud

• I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I would rather start a family than finish one.

  

  Don Marquis
  • Family

• Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that's been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren'in, his mother is now Bren'in, and they're kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He'd been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn't happened.

  

  David Morse
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Age

• I love breakfast - I like going to sleep at night because I know I get to wake up and eat in the morning.

  

  Charles Michael Davis
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• I think when science fiction is at its worst, it's just spaceships flying around shooting at each other. There has to be a lot more going on than that... science fiction is about exploring new worlds and new ideas, not about ray guns and action, necessarily.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Science
  • Action
  • Flying

• Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm, that's it okay? You cum, you eat the cookie, you smoke the butt, you go to sleep you get up in the morning and go to fucking work okay? That is it, end of fucking list!

  

  Denis Leary
  • Up
  • Work
  • Small

• Hopefully we'll figure out how to get 'Iron Man 2' going, and I'll be involved with that. You have got to outdo what you did before. So, if the last one took two years, we would need at least that to do what we are talking about or, at least, thinking about.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Thinking

• Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

  

  Kenneth R. Miller

• Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

  

  Jean Giraudoux
  • Soldier

• Smiling just to see the smile upon your face. These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive.

  

  Edwin McCain
  • God
  • Smiling
  • I Thank