Crystal Gayle (Brenda Gail Gatzimos) Quotes

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

Crystal Gayle

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• I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.

  

  Zendaya
  • Way
  • Change
  • Speak

• I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Love
  • Bad

• Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Like

• I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Mayor
  • Kentucky

• I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Morning
  • Japanese
  • China

• As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Why
  • Philosophy
  • Said

• Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Family
  • Home
  • Rest

• If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Military
  • Choose

• So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Christian
  • Silent
  • Agenda

• When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Mistakes
  • System
  • Only

• I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Like
  • Really
  • While

• When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Start
  • Search
  • Starting

• Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Books

• You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • You
  • Bear
  • Often

• In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Period
  • Modern

• The dawn smiles, repelling gloom, At the dawn with violence, At every meet season, At the meet season of his turnings, At the four stages of his course, I will extol him that judges violence, Of the strong din, deep his wrath. I am not a man, cowardly, gray, A scum near the wattle.

  

  Taliesin
  • Strong
  • Violence
  • Deep

• I have trouble listening to what he that is, former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he's talking.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Listening

• There was something about the cocksure confidence of that statement that gave Auger goose pimples. It was like an invitation to fate.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Confidence
  • Fate

• It's funny, but as time goes by, I get stopped in airports all the time, and it's always about 'Shannon's Deal.'

  

  Jamey Sheridan
  • Time
  • Funny

• I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Promise
  • Animals
  • Behavior

• You have to find out for yourself. Take the leap. Go as far as you can. Try staying out of touch. Become a stranger in a strange land. Acquire humility. Learn the language. Listen to what people are saying.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Humility

• The Enron scandal continues. The U.S. Senate has announced they are going to subpoena Ken Lay and make him testify. Apparently Lay received the subpoena this morning and then, out of habit, immediately shredded it.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Morning
  • Habit
  • Senate

• I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Heart
  • Athlete

• So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

  

  Crystal Gayle