Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

Garrett Hedlund

Die and endow a college or a cat.

Alexander Pope

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Blaise Pascal

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Claude LeviStrauss

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Frank Herbert

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Rita Mae Brown

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

Sean Hannity

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Thomas Hood

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

Thomas Jefferson

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Thomas Huxley

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

Samuel Johnson