Muddy Waters Quotes
I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.
Quotes to Explore
-
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
-
In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
-
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
-
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
-
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
-
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
-
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
-
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
-
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
-
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
-
By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
-
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
-
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
-
My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
-
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
-
I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
-
I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
-
I don't know if I'm a method actor.
-
I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.
-
For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.
-
Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.
-
I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
-
I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.
