John Prine Quotes

I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

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• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Father
  • Me
  • Memories

• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Children
  • Bear

• I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Actor
  • Singer

• If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Children
  • She
  • Shoes

• Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

  

  Gary North
  • Believe
  • History
  • Jesus

• The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Life
  • America
  • Today

• It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Pretty
  • Better
  • Arts

• The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Simple
  • Doubt
  • Western Europe

• It's better to be wise than to be smart.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Wise
  • Smart

• She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Night
  • Moon

• No animal has to suffer for me to live.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Live
  • Animal
  • Suffer

• If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • God
  • Should
  • Pay

• The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Belief
  • Consciousness
  • Coaching

• I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • People
  • Work
  • Respect

• What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Prayer

• Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Daily
  • Drawing

• Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Words
  • Focus
  • Ideas

• I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I take on, I'm challenged to go deeper than the last time, and then again deeper than the last time. This is the deepest I've ever been asked to dive. And to see how deep I actually went for this, and that I wasn't afraid to go there in order to give Tyler exactly what he envisioned for the character, which was pretty deep, that's what I discovered about myself.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Pretty

• Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Present
  • Language
  • Order

• I'm a fan of balance and order, but I like to put that extra layer on top. It makes it more dynamic.

  

  April Greiman
  • Balance
  • Order
  • Top

• I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

  

  John Prine
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