J. Lynn Quotes

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

Yours is... il sent comme lavande." Is that French for 'You stink'?" It means 'lavender'." Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.

So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.

So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I've been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

Determination is like a muscle. If you do not use it regularly, it fades away.

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Be true to yourself. Establish your own style and stick to it.

Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.

When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

Surround yourself with "yay-sayers" not "naysayers."

Fowl never tastes as savory when you're hungry for venison.

If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.