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Jason Isbell Quotes

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

Jason Isbell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 1, 1979

Topics

Sad Time Purpose Slow Rock Listen

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

Max Lerner

Best President Enemies Hit He His

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

Anna Deavere Smith

Teacher Child People Loved Friends

My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.

Amy Sedaris

Kitchen Eye Pink Reach Fall Phone

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

Amy Waldman

Thinking Want Sitting Write Years

The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.

Amity Shlaes

Effort Performance Better Party Old

I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?

Simon Beaufoy

People Doing Extraordinary Normal

I am sure every movie I've made, even as an actor, had multiple test screenings. And I am sure there have been horrible things written about me. But I never have to see them!

Chris Evans

I Am Me Test Actor Never See

I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.

Christopher Meloni

Love Day Me Building House Dream

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Antoine Rivarol

Great Sun Gold Clay Like Wax

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

Anne Bancroft

Work Good I Am People World Talking

I get quite excited about things other people have worn. I went through a phase as a student when I wore a lot of 1940s tea dresses.

Ashley Jensen

Tea People Student Dresses Excited

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

Pink

Sacred Sage Cleansing