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

• 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

• The series isn't over. I've just got to wait and see. I've got to keep progressing. As long as I keep progressing, I'll keep feeling positive.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Positive

• We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry or whether some philosopher or other thinks it is. Roughly, the more demanding our conception of knowledge is, the less plausible foreknowledge is; the weaker our conception of knowledge is, the more plausible foreknowledge is.

  

  Gail Fine
  • Order
  • Views
  • Philosopher

• Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Action
  • Essence
  • Concentration

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

  

  John Prine
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