Lee Ann Womack Quotes

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

Lee Ann Womack

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• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Best
  • Adventure

• Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Attitude

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Need
  • Belief
  • Heroes

• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Beauty

• I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Artist
  • Weird
  • Bit

• If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

  

  Edmund White
  • Marriage
  • Never
  • Gay

• When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Sun

• In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Americans
  • Taxes

• I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Disappointed
  • Seen

• I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Tough

• I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time
  • Great
  • Character

• Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Future
  • Proud

• I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Evil

• A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Young Man

• Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Work
  • Achieve
  • Albums

• You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

  

  Charles Portis

• Well, it was a great childhood, and he was bigger-than-life, a wonderful guy, very intelligent, and a big influence on me, and a great supporter, too. He was always interested in what I was doing and ready to give me advice or help me and he would call me out of the blue, and I really miss him. He left us in '92, and it's still a shock to me to think that he's not around because he had so much energy, and loved life and loved people, and he was "The Rifleman." He was that and a lot more.

  

  Johnny Crawford
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• But you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with livingCause it's the ones with the sorest throats Laura,who have done the most singing.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Done
  • Singing

• It's not that you can do this calculated move to try to further your career. You just follow what's in your heart, and later you look back and go, 'I was either really dumb or really smart, I can't believe I did that.'

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Career

• Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

  

  Lee Ann Womack