George Jones Quotes
I couldn't think or eat nothin' unless it was Hank Williams, and I couldn't wait for his next record to come out. He had to be, really, the greatest.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
-
When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
-
I was an English major in college!
-
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
-
The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
-
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
-
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
-
You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
-
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
-
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
-
I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
-
I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.
-
Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.
-
People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.
-
I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
-
If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
-
There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
-
Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.
-
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
-
Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.
-
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
-
I couldn't think or eat nothin' unless it was Hank Williams, and I couldn't wait for his next record to come out. He had to be, really, the greatest.
