J. Lynn Quotes

I just wanted to let you know that I feel very lucky to have you in my life.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

You’re nice to me because you think I’m pretty?” “And because you have brown eyes. I’m a sucker for big old brown eyes.

The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

Life learned early on to recognize itself.

I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

I want you. Bad. Right now. Against the wall. On my bed. The floor and maybe in the bathroom later. I have a shower stall and a Jacuzzi we could put to really good use. I know you'd like it.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.

By learning to control the tenor and flow of your electromagnetic energy, you are learning to take control of your destiny.

Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.

You don't have to die in order to make a living!

Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was.

Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

Cat's eyes seem a bridge to a world beyond the one we know.

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I was quaking in my boots.

Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.

For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

It's only men that I strip and flip. My companies I hold long and close to my heart.

Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?