John Prine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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I dream, therefore I exist.
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The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
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I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
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The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family
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Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
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Wherever you go, God be with you.
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Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it.
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The best part about using success as revenge means no 25 to life.
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We're actors at the end of the day. I don't take it home with me. My experience outside of work, I love... when I hear wrap, it's the most exciting part of my day. I'm the first to have my make-up off, in the car, out. I've gotta go home. I want to get back to my life. I love it back there.
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Soon is not as good as now.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!
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Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.
