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.

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• 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
  • Seen
  • Disappointed

• 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

• I want to be sublimely happy.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy

• Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • High
  • Joy

• Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Ends
  • Idiot
  • Columns

• Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • Up
  • Long
  • Water

• Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Soul
  • Obstacles

• Surprisingly, maybe the place I get recognised the least is the United States. America is not so big on track and field. Some recognise me there but lots don't.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • America

• 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