Top 94 Gilley Quotes
#1. Holding up my credit card so Gilley could see, I snipped it in half.
'You act like I don't have the numbers, expiration date, and security code memorized,' he mocked.
Victoria Laurie
#2. 'Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it.
Mickey Gilley
#3. I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness.
Jeremy Gilley
#4. Billingsly castle was holding its breath. Thunderheads rolled in from the hills, thick and white and folding over like biscuit dough, bubbling, boiling magenta along the edges where the skillet was the hottest.
Lauren Gilley
#5. I was afraid," she said, "and I wanted to hear your voice.
Lauren Gilley
#6. You're suppressing my first amendment rights," she said, voice muffled. "You don't live in America; you live in the United States of Teague.
Lauren Gilley
#7. Well, Mercy was a talker, friendly in his fury, and something about that strategy always got him results. That, or it was just because he was fucking huge and liked to use an ice pick. Either
Lauren Gilley
#8. Dad." He flicked a glance toward her, but his eyes returned to the paper. "I know Drew's kind of an idiot, and I know better than to put any trust in him yet.
Lauren Gilley
#9. Worry is allowing problems and distress to come between us and the heart of God. It is the view that God has somehow lost control of the situation and we cannot trust Him. A legitimate concern presses us closer to the heart of God and causes us to lean and trust on Him all the more.
Gary E. Gilley
#10. It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive.
Mickey Gilley
#11. I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.
Mickey Gilley
#12. Ben tasted like wine; felt animal beneath her hands; chased away the shadows until her room was only darkness, only them, nothing wicked.
Lauren Gilley
#13. If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.
Mickey Gilley
#14. All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.
Mickey Gilley
#15. Tam felt his hands twitch, longing to curl into fists, longing to put those fists into that motherfucking GQ model wannabe's face.
Lauren Gilley
#16. Tango tipped his head back against the bench, staring up at the denim-colored evening sky. This was the most dangerous, the most wonderful, the most daring addiction of all: life.
Lauren Gilley
#17. I wanted to be special to you."
"Fillette, you were always that.
Lauren Gilley
#19. But women were complicated, subtle, and so much stronger than men always wanted to give them credit. They could swallow hurt whole and let it eat them from the inside out in a way none of his brothers ever could. And when they fought, their claws were sharper.
Lauren Gilley
#20. There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.
Mickey Gilley
#21. I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.
Mickey Gilley
#22. When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.
Mickey Gilley
#23. she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to fill her up with happiness.
Lauren Gilley
#24. We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.
Jeremy Gilley
#25. I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.
Mickey Gilley
#26. Back then I thought if you cut a record, you were automatically a star.
Mickey Gilley
#27. If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
Mickey Gilley
#28. Heartbreak was never cured; it just went into remission. And here it came roaring back, leaving her feverish and weak and unable to move in the bright afternoon sun. It
Lauren Gilley
#29. All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.
Mickey Gilley
#31. So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year.
Mickey Gilley
#32. He felt her heartbeat against his shoulder, through his jacket, light as raindrops.
Lauren Gilley
#33. When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.
Jeremy Gilley
#34. A little fear's healthy. The day we stop being afraid is probably the day we stop being human.
Lauren Gilley
#35. Mercy grinned. Do I smell a shotgun wedding? I've wanted to call you Daddy for so long now.
Lauren Gilley
#36. We need to support the governments of the world to create the world we want and I also think we need to empower the UN so that the secretariat, the people who work day in and day out, know that the people are behind them.
Jeremy Gilley
#37. It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.
Mickey Gilley
#38. The night was a runny, watercolor black, rain sighing high in the tree tops, rustling on the pavement.
Lauren Gilley
#39. The South did not bustle and plow and struggle against the snow; it slept beneath it, the silence broken only by the chatter of hungry birds and the exuberant shouts of children using trash can lids as makeshift sleds.
Lauren Gilley
#40. Horny asshole? He's not the one leaving here with Truckstop Barbie. That would be you, sir, and you don't even know me, so I don't see why you should mind where I choose to direct my romantic affections. Her
Lauren Gilley
#41. He was silent, and she finally gave him her full attention. "You're creepy, you know?"
A small grin plucked at one corner of his mouth. "I thought you liked strong silent types these days."
"There's silent, and then there's you.
Lauren Gilley
#42. What must it be like to be all James Dean and Steve McQueen in your leather and denim? Not giving a damn about anything?
Lauren Gilley
#43. Tango, ever the gentleman, gave her a wink. I don't have anything in my blood but beer and poor white trash. Figure I gotta get in good with these leader types.
Lauren Gilley
#44. She was this lovely little girl setting his world on fire.
Lauren Gilley
#45. I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.
Mickey Gilley
#47. My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
Mickey Gilley
#48. Mercy was his ice breaker, his Jolly Cajun Giant, who could get away with saying whatever he damned wanted because no one wanted to climb up on a stepladder and stop him.
Lauren Gilley
#49. We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.
Jeremy Gilley
#50. Ah, sweetheart, she's not the one I want to bend back over my bike right now. Jesus ... Christ.
Lauren Gilley
#51. It was broken. It was haunted. Just like her.
But it had bones, and it had memories, and it had the ability to be something strong again. Just like her.
Lauren Gilley
#52. Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day.
Jeremy Gilley
#53. Dude," Mercy said. "I will fold you up and stuff you in this beer pitcher." "But
Lauren Gilley
#54. If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
Mickey Gilley
#55. World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.
Jeremy Gilley
#56. I'm not worried about that. Aidan loves Sam, and a man can do great things when he's motivated by love. Maggie
Lauren Gilley
#57. Well aren't you just a ray of fucking sunshine.
Lauren Gilley
#58. I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.
Mickey Gilley
#60. The world is full of terrible things. But there are beautiful things, too, and you're one of them.
Lauren Gilley
#61. How many times have you been slapped on dates?"
"Five," he said as he checked over his shoulder and eased back out into traffic. "So hit my left side if you're going to. The right's my pretty side."
"Which side is your modest side?"
"Don't have one.
Lauren Gilley
#62. Ava wasn't the poor unsuspecting woman who'd let the wild thing into the house, she was the wild thing's mate, creeping indoors at his side ...
Lauren Gilley
#63. You can add new parts, baby," she imagined Maggie saying. "But you can't lose the parts of you that were already there.
Lauren Gilley
#64. I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.
Mickey Gilley
#65. Behind every strong man is a strong woman?" he guessed.
"Beside," Ghost corrected. "She's beside him.
Lauren Gilley
#66. Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.
Jeremy Gilley
#67. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.
Mickey Gilley
#68. Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.
Mickey Gilley
#69. I'm your last choice," she said. "You tried everything, tasted everyone in Knoxville. And when the princess told you off, you came to me, the last ditch effort.
Lauren Gilley
#70. All I have to concentrate on is my performing.
Mickey Gilley
#71. She didn't know if she cried for what she'd lost as a teenager, or for the confused tangle of emotions inside her now. Either way, Mike telling her that he was sorry against the top of her head was the only answer that made any sense.
Lauren Gilley
#73. His voice was friendly enough, but his gaze drilled into Mercy, an obvious challenge. Cute, Mercy thought. Not impressed, asshole.
Lauren Gilley
#75. She'd put her teeth in his heart, long ago, and he'd left the print there, evidence that he wanted her love. That he returned it.
Lauren Gilley
#76. Nights like this," someone had told him, not so long ago, "feel like the world's waiting for something." He was sure, in hindsight, that on that night on a back step with a shared bottle of grocery store Pinot Noir, the girl beside him had wanted the two of them to be that something special.
Lauren Gilley
#77. Aidan and Carter had shown up about fifteen minutes ago with a pressure washer, lots of detergent, and a bad case of being mentally twelve.
Lauren Gilley
#78. Strong men need strong love, and a soft touch. Once you fall in love with a man like that, there's no going back to ordinary.
Lauren Gilley
#79. You know those lists that get put together? 'Top Ten Companies to Work For' and that kinda thing? Yeah, you are so not helping this be one of those places.
Lauren Gilley
#80. They'd dueled in the lamplight of her kitchen that night, savaging each other with accusations that could never be recalled. Now, he couldn't remember half of what they'd said, only the colors and lights and seething tide of fear all around them. He could still taste the acrid burn of unfairness.
Lauren Gilley
#81. I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.
Mickey Gilley
#82. A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.
Mickey Gilley
#83. His voice was different in the small, intimate spaces that existed when they were pressed together like this; it was sweet with a familiar sort of sleepiness, a voice just for her that the rest of the world didn't get to hear.
Lauren Gilley
#84. He checked the impulse, and darted a glance over his shoulder to see Mercy and Colin marching four duct-taped cartel boys in at gunpoint. "Look, boss," Mercy said with a dark laugh. "We've been making friends." "I
Lauren Gilley
#85. Rejection is my fuel for awesome. Every no is one step closer to a yes.
Rene Gilley
#86. Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?
Mickey Gilley
#87. A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action.
Mickey Gilley
#88. Do we have to have one of those woman conversations about it?" She felt her brows go up. "I'm sorry, what's that supposed to mean?" "Oh shit. We do." "Michael.
Lauren Gilley
#89. For a wondrous golden second, they basked in the afterglow, not caring that it was four in the afternoon and they were naked in front of the windows. "I missed you," Ellie whispered right against his ear. "Don't ever think that I wasn't missing you like crazy all that time.
Lauren Gilley
#90. You can't love anything properly from a distance.
Lauren Gilley
#91. I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.
Mickey Gilley
#92. I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.
Mickey Gilley
#93. Mercy felt a wide, humorless spread across his face. She's my conscience. My soul. The only part of me that hasn't gone all the way dark. No one fucks with her and gets out alive.
Lauren Gilley
#94. Beautiful' isn't a feminine word. I don't even think it's a human word. It isn't what something looks like; it's what something is.
Lauren Gilley
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