Loretta Lynn Quotes
Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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The present is a point just passed.
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I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.
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I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.
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I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
