Quotes about america
american-journalist bad major since trade
It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines. Gwen Ifill
american-journalist good tony
Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.
american-journalist citizenship
Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
american-journalist
I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.
american-musician south
It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart. Guy Clark
american-musician coming good knowledge process sounds stuff works
Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.
american-musician chris fiddle good integral marvelous studio turns
Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player.
american-musician form purest string
All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.
american-musician
Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.
american-musician itch time winds wood
But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.
american-musician blew fiddle mentioned played violin
It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
american-musician change die either evolution guessing human natural rich second whatever
Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.
american-editor people
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
american-editor govern men might
There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
american-editor authors deal good pin
A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.
american-educator continued discovered evening expressed means tedium
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse. George Combe
american-educator brute chooses england few invader mass midst robbed seemed shores submission submit visit
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
american-artist best finest indians inhabiting regions several spoke tribes whom
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. George Catlin
american-musician trying
I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. Gavin DeGraw
american-producer friends-or-friendship
If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends. George Cukor
american-musician fire research
No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band. Gene Simmons
american-journalist believe danger good people understand
When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win. George Clooney
american-comedian bad country cutting people running
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. George Burns
american-director guy michael movies named wanna
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director. George A. Romero
american-educator curiosity neat
Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious. Gordon Gee
american-businessman attention instrument merely paying pays polling public views
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. George Gallup
american-musician communication
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. Tom Lehrer
american-musician careful deeds good
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
american-coach leadership
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. Tom Landry
american-businessman call flies goes people unaware
We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here.
american-businessman fear
Do what you fear most and you control fear.
american-businessman history
An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
american-businessman effort greatest money
You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.