David Means Quotes

I was a kid who was born and raised on Johnny Cash. My father played 'At Folsom Prison' constantly. Cash was the only thing I remember coming from our big, warm stereo console. Even then, I knew Cash was uncool. I knew he was an unhip Republican.

David Means

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 17, 1961

Topics

FatherPrisonWarmRememberBorn

I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.

Jeffrey Zeldman

ArtRightDirectorFailDifferent

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

Steve Waugh

CricketGameThoughtLovedCoaching

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Tony Robbins

LifeLoveSuccessTodaySimpleYou

I collect words and phrases and cut things out of newspapers and keep scrapbooks and write down ideas in my phone or 10,000 notebooks all around my house. It's not very organised, but I keep collecting, so I did have a lot of material to help me to write songs.

Roisin Murphy

WordsMeIdeasHelpHousePhone

Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.

Mary Oliver

AloneHouseDownWantHillHand

It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.

Michael Leunig

ExperiencePresenceUnpredictable

I remember somewhere in his 70s, my dad started wearing a nightgown - like an old-school grandpa gown! I can see how that might be somewhere in my future.

Dierks Bentley

FutureRememberI CanSeeStarted

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Bryan Adams

LifeTryingYouConsequencesHard

I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough.

Aung San Suu Kyi

PeopleFreeThinkEnoughLongMore

In Hong Kong, we launched an Accenture Liquid Studio where we are bringing together end-to-end digital customer experience services for clients.

Pierre Nanterme

ExperienceTogetherCustomerClients

I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.

Peter Jackson

AlwaysRugbyEmbarrassedGetPlayer

I'm just an innocent guy with a dirty mouth, I guess.

Shane Dawson

MouthDirtyInnocentGuyJustGuess

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