Jones Quotes

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Yeah I'm chillin' on a dirt road, laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones.

If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good singer, but was a good friend. He will be missed by many.

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream?

Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can REALLY hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.

One day the price of gold will be higher than the Dow Jones.

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

[When it comes to God] We can't run out of second chances...only time.

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

I'm a member of the George Jones fan club, and I'm a member of U2's fan club.

I think you can directly link chihuahuas to Dow Jones.

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself

Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men.

George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

For the first time in my life, I was in a shoot-out. A real, honest-to-goodness shoot-out with a bad guy. And, apparently, we both sucked.

The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.

Man, for someone like me who had George Jones music imprinted in my DNA before birth, the last few years have been rough as a fan of country music.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

George Jones was my friend and I loved him.

If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.

Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones.

Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

I was working with David Warner and John Rhys-Davies, who is from the Indiana Jones movies.He's a very strong, strong presence, and so I had to assert myself.

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?

Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

With so many dark things to worry about in the world right now, I hope people will just go with the fun and enjoy [ Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp

My name is Skippito Friskito. (clap-clap)I fear not a single bandito. (clap-clap)My manners are mellow, I'm sweet like the Jell-o, I get the job done, yes indeed-o. (clap-clap)

You’ll probably fall in & out of love at least a dozen times…the wrong way…to love THAT ONE…the right way…YOU!

I've never seen anyone as beautiful as you, sweetheart. All supple and voluptuous, a mountain of curves I can't wait to climb.