Rodney Crowell Quotes

Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven years to get a sense of how to wean myself off the process and trickery of songwriting. You realize that giant metaphors work in songs because you have so few words. Standing alone on a page, they threaten to be overblown in a hurry.

Rodney Crowell

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Height has been very, very central to the development of my personality.

Jessica Williams

PersonalityDevelopmentHeightBeen

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

WordsIdeasFailComeVeryHandy

Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.

Stephen Vincent Benet

TimeSkyVoiceYouSayDead

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Sonny Perdue

LeadershipGoodPassionKnowledge

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

Mike Ferguson

KnowPilotTellPilotsEvenBeacon

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

Michael Moore

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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

Lord Byron

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I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

Lisa Randall

GoodSimplicityThinkBetterMore

I can't go anywhere without someone judging me.

Britney Spears

MeSomeoneGoJudgingWithout

If anybody ever points out to me I'm chewing scenery, I certainly like to stop doing that.

William Fichtner

MeSceneryDoingStopOutLike

My students may have dexterity with the equations they're required to know, but they lack the capacity to apply their knowledge to real-life problems. This critical shortcoming appears in high school and possibly in elementary grades - long before college.

Priyamvada Natarajan

KnowledgeSchoolCollegeHigh School

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

Sebastian Stan

ViolenceMasculinityAlwaysAlpha

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