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Lewis Grizzard Quotes

'Redneck' has been terribly abused as a term. Where I come from, a redneck was a farmer who worked the fields all day and got his neck sunburned. People made fun of them.

Lewis Grizzard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 20, 1946 - March 20, 1994

Topics

Day Fun People Farmer Redneck Neck

The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different.

Jessica Simpson

Me Line Point Something Different

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

Robert Harris

Day Words Enough Stop Too Much Try

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

Mary C. Jones

Positive Improvement Reading Sight

I'm kind of a subtle person.

Lizz Wright

Person Kind Subtle

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Diane Wakoski

I Am Poetry Political Way Never

We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats have pushed to fund jobs that repair our roads, runways, and railways - we can't have first rate American communities with third-world American infrastructure.

Christine Pelosi

Time Roads Bridges American Know

Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.

Annie Besant

Morals Morality Moral Gathering Code

If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want.

Willow Smith

Work Success Work Hard You Want Dig

A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.

Pete Rose

You Understand Ball Without Blocking

Stand-up comedians have a very important relationship to Twitter. For them, it's a place to try out material.

Sheila Heti

Relationship Place Important Try Out

You know, I've always wanted to do dramas.

Seann William Scott

You Know Always Wanted Dramas

Catholicism is so steeped in imagery. It's one of the many reasons Catholicism has given birth to so many great filmmakers compared to the Protestant tradition - even in America, where we're primarily Protestant.

Scott Derrickson

Great America Tradition Birth Where