Lissie Quotes

#1. No, I tried to use Lissie. But apparently you're more pigheaded than I gave you credit for. I thought for sure that would do it. Instead, it backfired on me, and you agreed to go to the dance with ... someone else.

Kimberly Derting

#2. Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.

Lissie

#3. [My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

Lissie

#4. I am still trying to glue together the broken pieces of this person I love. He manages his tortured side with remarkable skill, but even Chris, with his endless supply of strength and clarity, could not survive all that he did without scars.

Jessica Park

#5. I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.

Lissie

#6. You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.

Phil Anselmo

#7. I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

Charlize Theron

#8. Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if it's not?

Lissie

#9. It's getting crazier and crazier each day. A lot of people think I'd get aggravated, but I just stay with a smile and keep on. It's the life I chose, and you have to deal with it. If not, change what you're doing.

Vince Young

#10. My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.

Zach Johnson

#11. I'm really close to my family. As I get older, it's like they're the only people I really talk to.

Lissie

#12. Any time things go to infinity in physics, we know we haven't gotten it right.

Andrea M. Ghez

#13. He gives me good advice ... People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

Oscar Wilde

#14. Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to feel their rough rock under my fingers and the breath of the winds against my feet ... I am in love with the mountains.

Wilfrid Noyce

#15. I simply was not able to risk wrecking her world, and I could see no possible way I could move the whole kingdom. So I left her with the only thing I could - the certainty of a little more time.

Mary Oliver

#16. I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.

Lissie

#17. Allie-Cat? Oh help me Rhonda. He's given me a pet name.

Elle Kennedy

#18. If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.

Sophie Kinsella

#19. I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

Lissie

#20. Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

Lissie

#21. I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort zone knowing I have my family close by.

Lissie

#22. For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

Lissie

#23. You can not be fearless without first admitting you have been afraid.

Jack Laursen

#24. I'm strong and I can do things that scare me. I can drive in the snow even though it terrifies me. I'm doing it all alone, I don't have a boyfriend, it was like, "I can do this."

Lissie

#25. Too much to know is to know nought but fame;
And every godfather can give a name.

William Shakespeare

#26. I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.

Lissie

#27. I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

Lissie

#28. I'll always want to play and share my music with as many people as I can, but the emphasis is more on how do I find a happy place, what's my balance, what's my ideal.

Lissie

#29. You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

Lissie

#30. The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

Lissie

#31. Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

Joy Page

#32. Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.

Lissie

#33. I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

Lissie

#34. I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for dinner. I was definitely a kid of the '80s, who was out and about.

Lissie