Luther Allison Quotes

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

Luther Allison

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• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • Going

• My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.

  

  Malachi Throne
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Genius

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Star

• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

  O. Henry
  • Existence
  • Conversation
  • Few

• Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Up
  • Way
  • Treat

• Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Hurt
  • Learn
  • Down

• Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Painting

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • Play
  • Enough

• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Family
  • Food

• I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Up
  • Work
  • Movie

• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Up
  • Why
  • Clear

• I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Comedy

• I think the Greek people, although it is difficult and challenging and the politics of it I know are not good, should appreciate the fact that in this global economy, the Greek economy was going to have to go through some structural reforms.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Greek

• The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Evil
  • Garden

• Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Music
  • Teenager

• What an adventure you have thrown me into! Nothing was farther from my thoughts than doing portraits! Now it's all I think about.. ..and i's all your handiwork

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Thoughts
  • Adventure

• I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

  

  Luther Allison
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Door