S Austin Quotes

Unless you got real short and real fat, you ain't no Booker T!

I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Art can contradict Science.

In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.

God has really blessed me. He could've allowed me to keep playing, but instead he saved my life.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.

I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.

Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

You can make it your excuse, or you can make it your story.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

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.

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.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

I like girls that have a nice smile and nice eyes. I want to date a girl who understands my busy schedule and that I have to be on tour a lot. And she has to make me laugh!

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!

When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.