Shania Twain Quotes

You don't want to be outside during blackfly season.

Shania Twain

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• When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Forgotten

• With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Community
  • Changing

• There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Day

• I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
  • Failure
  • New

• The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Country
  • Running

• I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Drug
  • Congress
  • Members

• It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • You
  • Down
  • Reach

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Motivational
  • Machine

• A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Money
  • Giving

• It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • God
  • Moving
  • Sad

• I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Together
  • Hate
  • Musicians

• I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • People
  • Politics
  • Integrity

• I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Equality

• I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Work
  • Best

• I'm pretty obsessed with 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey.' I usually watch it on the bus after a show with my husband Jimi. As much as he will deny it, he loves the show as much as I do.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Husband

• All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Jump

• Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law - on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Marriage
  • Financial

• Unilateralism, as we have painfully seen in Iraq, is its own reward. Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to 'bring it on.'

  

  Al Gore
  • May
  • Political
  • Alone

• One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Long
  • Job

• Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • City

• Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts. You get a little money, and all of a sudden you get confused about who you are and how you fit into that.

  

  Bevy Smith
  • Money
  • Games
  • Littles

• You don't want to be outside during blackfly season.

  

  Shania Twain