Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket.

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5, 000 years.

I can remember sittin in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin until somebody got done so I could finish what they left.

You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated.

The problem with movies is that movies end and your life doesn't. This doesn't appear to cause any trouble, but it does cause confusion, which is almost as bad.