Kenny Rogers Quotes
When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.
Quotes to Explore
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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I don't like attacking.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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Though the views of members of the House and Senate are as divergent as the people we represent, we bear the responsibility to work through our political differences and get things done. That's our job.
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Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.
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Every uprising has to start somewhere. It’s something that needs to come from the people.
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When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.
