Alison Krauss Quotes

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

Alison Krauss

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Explore

• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Love
  • Strong

• I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Hero

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Real
  • Today
  • Problem

• President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Government

• The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • End

• To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Business
  • Law

• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Education
  • Change
  • Learn

• Fighting is one of those things that gets tons of attention, far more than it deserves.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Attention
  • Fighting
  • Far

• There's no question that jihad historically means war.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • War
  • Question
  • Means

• Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Know
  • Possible

• Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one’s neighbor fall off his roof.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Twitter is the first information that I ingest in the morning. When there are important things happening, friends of mine who follow news feeds will report on it, so I find out about most major news on Twitter.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Morning

• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Power

• As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • Uncle

• The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Shoes

• Get more competition into the New Hampshire marketplace, and then we'll find that there will be insurers that will compete on convenience as compared to cost.

  

  Ann McLane Kuster
  • Competition

• America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • America
  • Germany
  • Vinyl

• So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Heaven

• I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Great
  • Water
  • Boat

• There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Person
  • Influence

• I still think of myself as from Illinois.

  

  Alison Krauss