Ketch Quotes

#1. My! we couldn't get him out, Tom. And besides, 'twouldn't do any good; they'd ketch him again." "Yes - so they would. But I hate to hear 'em abuse him so like the dickens when he never done - that." "I do too, Tom. Lord, I hear 'em say he's the

Mark Twain

#2. Ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita. And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original Bounty mutineers. The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft

Jack London

#3. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

John Dryden

#4. The ketch belonged to an angry millionaire, who hadn't been willing to lend it until he received a personal telephone call from the President of France. (His wife had put on her tiara to listen to the call on an extension.)

Peter Dickinson

#5. I think it is good for people who are incarcerated or who are bound up one way or the other-people like Lily Kimball and all the prostitues of Memphis. This gal, she needs some wings, and a good song can make that happen.

Ketch Secor

#6. Because music gets you high, so it makes sense to sing about what else gets you high.

Ketch Secor

#7. Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way he danced, and the way he sang, and his image.

Ketch Secor

#8. Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

M. Kirin

#9. We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection to it. It'd be wonderful.

Ketch Secor

#10. Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's a very solo ritual. It's not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.

Ketch Secor

#11. Seth let out a heavy sigh and ran his fingers through his hair. She had a point. Constant stops would put them at greater risk, especially when it came to Natti being seen. And obviously, it wasn't likely she'd stay in the car, even if he did ask. Maybe if he tied her up in the backseat?

Kelsey Ketch

#12. I guess it's a bit like not claiming your brother at school. This kind of disowning of the thing that you're most like. You want to be something cool, like Michael Jackson say, with a boom box over your shoulder and wearing leather. But you know deep down you're just a hayseed.

Ketch Secor

#13. How dare you think?

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#14. It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.

Ketch Secor

#15. What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.

Reggie Watts

#16. Sometimes our significant others travel with us.

Ketch Secor

#17. The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Mark Twain

#18. I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

Ketch Secor

#19. It feels like forever since I've been "here" without being "there" and "there too" and "what about there.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#20. It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.

Ketch Secor

#21. It's bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good time ... while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than musical notes pouring out of that stoked-up-and-chuggin iron chariot.

Ketch Secor

#22. Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

Lindy West

#23. I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.

Ketch Secor

#24. Her body jerked when his arm draped over her. "You have no idea how often I've dreamed of this moment," Seth whispered in a drowsy voice.

Kelsey Ketch

#25. We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock - power chords - before we ever thought we would play folk music. So virtuosity was just never in my reach.

Ketch Secor

#26. In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#27. My hope is that one day Mike Glennon is a Hall of Famer,

Josh McCown

#28. I've decided she's worthy of something more special, something worthy of my powers.

Kelsey Ketch

#29. It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

Ketch Secor

#30. I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.

Ketch Secor

#31. What others believe is not my concern, unless they attempt to force it on me.

Richard K. Morgan

#32. A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon.

Joe Abercrombie

#33. You can't keep resisting my irresistibleness, Natara Stone. You'll give in eventually, and I won't quit until you do.

Kelsey Ketch

#34. This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted.

Ketch Secor

#35. Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and he danced with a white lady, and music was born.

Ketch Secor