Mel Tillis Quotes

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.

Mel Tillis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 8, 1932 - November 19, 2017

Topics

SchoolPeopleMeLaughYouKnow

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

Jeremy London

VanityLiftKindGetWeightsReally

Fresh, clean water cannot be taken for granted. And it is not - water is political, and litigious. Transporting water is impractical for both political and physical reasons, so buying up water rights did not make a lot of sense to me, unless I was pursuing a greater fool theory of investment - which was not my intention.

Michael Burry

WaterFoolMePoliticalIntention

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

Steven Curtis Chapman

GoodHomeMusicWifeMeSong

I just don't like to drive. I'm not a bad driver, I just don't like to drive.

Tracey Gold

DriveBadDriverJustLike

Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.

Mary Steenburgen

WorldReadingGrowHouseActorBig

Soon after the inauguration, the Obamas gave Big Food a case of heartburn when, in the spring of 2009, Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn, a symbolic but nevertheless powerful act that thrilled the food movement.

Michael Pollan

FoodSpringPowerfulHouseGarden

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Demosthenes

ManFriendsHelpRightWillingWho

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

China Chow

VoiceMy OwnHearingOwnMachine

I'm being honest, I say what I think.

Boy George

ThinkSayBeing HonestHonestBeing

When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.

Richard Lewis

DoingWantJokesMayStartedWell

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

Retief Goosen

SportsDaySchoolMeGolfSerious

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I'm blessed, and yeah, I'm planning to go to Heaven.

Mr. T

BlessedPlanningHeavenGoUsMust

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