Merle Haggard Quotes
Women are God's last creation. You suppose he's saying, "What should I do to follow this?" Well, it's really a head -scratcher. I think women are absolutely wonderful. I think this world is going to be governed by women.
Quotes to Explore
-
Accomplish something every day of your life.
-
I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
-
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
-
I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
-
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
-
I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
-
What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
-
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
-
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
-
I wasn't a great debater.
-
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
-
There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
-
Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
-
If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
-
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.
-
Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.
-
Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.
-
I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.
-
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
-
I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact.
-
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
-
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
-
I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every day than they really have strength to perform - who has not at some time regarded bed as a refuge.
-
Women are God's last creation. You suppose he's saying, "What should I do to follow this?" Well, it's really a head -scratcher. I think women are absolutely wonderful. I think this world is going to be governed by women.
