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Jerry Lee Lewis Quotes

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 29, 1935

Topics

God Talent Practice People You Tell

There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.

Jenny Han

Power Moving Face Someone Seeing

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

Andy Garcia

Women Me Enough Long Lens Say

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

Andrew Haigh

Relationship People Me Think End

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

Max Stirner

Confidence Attitude Power Humble

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?

Ann Patchett

Nature I Am People Think Thoughtful

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Sophocles

Man Blind See Things Off Far

I have no clue when I'm getting married. I just go with the flow.

Rob Gronkowski

Go Flow Getting Married Just Married

Imaginative writing, to me, is a way of discovering who we are and what we have to contend with; discovering what is out there and also what is not there. It enables me to think and explore and make something new with language while trying to make sense of our lives.

Romesh Gunesekera

Me Writing Think Language Trying

I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.

Mary Gordon

Life Father Great Job Joy Me

I think maybe there's a part of me that needs adversity from the rest of the world in order to feel motivated to want to prove people wrong. I need people to be like, 'What is this weirdo doing?'

Josh Trank

Adversity People Me World Rest Feel

I remember the first time I saw Robert De Niro at a party. I didn't want to run over and shake his hand. I wanted to admire him from a distance. Later, I ended up making a movie with him, and that was fantastic.

Jason Statham

Time Remember Party Distance Run

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Anton Chekhov

Day Sky Wife Me Moon Husband