Johnny Cash Quotes

Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Know
  • Moment

• Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Looking
  • Going

• The emotions of the game do not change.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Game
  • Change
  • Emotions

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• It's all about sound. It's that simple.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • About

• If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Live
  • Age
  • Innocence

• Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Think
  • Knowledge
  • Results

• Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Me
  • Romantic
  • Nobody

• I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Never
  • Show
  • Anything

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Play
  • Chance

• To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Space
  • Fiction

• This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Famous
  • Segregation

• The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Will
  • Apartheid
  • Sanctions

• No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • People
  • Life
  • Habit

• Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.

  

  Ovid

• Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Kids

• ...the greater part or my spring happiness is due to the scent of the wet earth and young leaves. I am always happy out of doors be it understood, for indoors there are servants and furniture, but in quite different ways, and my spring happiness bears no resemblance to my summer or autumn happiness, though it is not more intense, and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Children
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.

  

  Johnny Cash