There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

I am a lineman for the county.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.

Love street! This is the right way.

Men simply don't understand how women are. They think there's some other kind.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

I think the next century will be the century of complexity.

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.