Top 100 Lyle Quotes
#1. Plastic surgeons are not famous for their whimsicality. If they were, we'd all have faces like Valentino's. And cocks like Lyle's.
Richard Stevenson
#2. He just sits there. I want to be like that. Able to just sit all quiet and pull life toward me, one forehead at a time. His name is supposedly Lyle.
David Foster Wallace
#3. He frowned. "Who cares about that? Screw the gerbils."
"Screw them?" I raised an eyebrow. "Lyle, this is not your personal recreation time.
Cecily White
#4. I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.
James Badge Dale
#5. Sparky Lyle threw me a slider, and it wound up in the seats. We won, and it was a memorable moment.
Richie Allen
#6. No one knew she cried in the night for Lyle and her lost happiness, that under that biscuit crust exterior she was all butter grief and hunger.
Dorothy Allison
#7. I can't remember when I've liked a character as much as I've liked young Lyle Rettew, or when I've cheered one on so hard, despite the fact that he's clearly crazy and his quest is doomed. A thunderous debut, and the beginning of what will surely be a breathtaking career.
Pinckney Benedict
#8. She [Samantha Lyle] was a realist, someone who knew choices were meant to be made, and that one must suffer the consequences of those choices, no matter what they were.
Ayr Bray
#9. Lyle has that same footlocker in his room," said Nick. "And, dude, the
Mark Frost
#10. Twas a still, calm night and the moon's pale light
Shone over hill and dale
When friends mute with grief stood around the deathbed
Of their loved, lost Lily Lyle.
Heart as pure as forest lily
Never knowing guile,
Had its home within the bosom
Of sweet Lily Lyle.
Flora Thompson
#11. One of Lyle's best assets was also his biggest downfall--he was a big dick.
Tonya D. Floyd
#12. Anything, I want you to talk to me about it and not sit around and brood until you explode." She looked pointedly at Lyle. Sarah felt unnerved to see him so reserved and angry. "Any more questions?
Christy Hayes
#14. When the three of them stepped off the ferry on the north bank, a drunken camp follower offered to pleasure Strongboar with her mouth. "Here, pleasure my friend," Ser Lyle said, shoving her toward Ser Ilyn. Laughing, the woman moved to kiss Payne on the lips, then saw his eyes and shrank away.
George R R Martin
#15. After the group vet appointment
during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room
we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.
Sarah Dessen
#16. There. I want to be like that. Able to just sit all quiet and pull life toward me, one forehead at a time. His name is supposedly Lyle. It was yrstruly and C and Poor Tony that crewed that day and everything like that. The
David Foster Wallace
#17. No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!
George Foreman
#18. Horatio Lyle hit the floor, the floor hit him, and the floor came out the winner. It was in times like these, he told himself, when Newton's Second Law really made its point.
Catherine Webb
#19. Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.
P. J. O'Rourke
#20. Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.
Lyle Lovett
#21. As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.
Lyle Lovett
#22. Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
Lyle Lovett
#23. There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.
Lyle Lovett
#24. If you want to be happy, never ask for the gift of discernment.
Lyle W. Dorsett
#25. When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.
Lyle Lovett
#26. As we neared the watering hole, I saw lions sprawled at the base of the acacia tree, relaxing in the shade. Many, many lions. If a group of lions is normally called a pride, then this was, at the very least, an overconfidence. Possibly an arrogance.
Dixie Lyle
#27. I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.
Lyle Lovett
#28. The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.
Lyle Lovett
#29. I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
Lyle Lovett
#30. In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.
Lyle E. Schaller
#31. That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.
Lyle Lovett
#32. Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.
Lyle Lovett
#33. I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.
Lyle Lovett
#34. Tattoos aren't meant for everybody and they're too goddamn good for some people.
Lyle Tuttle
#35. People can portray me anyway they want because I don't give a damn ... But don't you analyze me and don't you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me. But don't you dare do it until then.
Lyle Alzado
#36. I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.
Lyle Lovett
#37. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.
Lyle Lovett
#38. In school, I didn't speak up often in class. I was never the person to yell out an answer. If I knew it, I might whisper it to my buddy and let him answer. I kept quiet.
Lyle Lovett
#39. It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?
Lyle Lovett
#40. I never met a man I didn't want to fight.
Lyle Alzado
#42. Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.
Lyle Lovett
#43. The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed.
Lyle Lovett
#44. If you ain't holding, you ain't trying.
Lyle Alzado
#46. The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.
Lyle W. Dorsett
#47. Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.
Lyle Lovett
#48. 'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.
Lyle Kessler
#49. Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is.
Lyle Lovett
#50. I've never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I've been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows.
Lyle Lovett
#51. She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.
Lyle Lovett
#53. Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.
Lyle Lovett
#54. If someone gives you a belt buckle, it's like a piece of jewelry. It has the same sort of emotional significance. It would be something you would intend to keep forever.
Lyle Lovett
#55. I married her just because she looks like you.
Lyle Lovett
#56. It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love.
Lyle Lovett
#57. My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing.
Lyle Lovett
#58. I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.
Lyle Lovett
#59. I swear if you kill yourself, I'm going to make sure "stupid" is tattooed on your ass for the angels to see.
E. Ardell
#60. I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
Lyle Lovett
#61. You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
Lyle Lovett
#62. I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.
Lyle Lovett
#63. I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.
Lyle Lovett
#64. When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.
Lyle Lovett
#65. It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.
Sandy Lyle
#66. I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.
Lyle Lovett
#67. I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.
Lyle Lovett
#68. It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.
Lyle Lovett
#69. What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.
Lyle Lovett
#70. If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger
Lyle Lovett
#71. Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.
Lyle Lovett
#72. The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I could go to sleep. I was that tired. But I had to perform. And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage.
Lyle Lovett
#73. I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.
Lyle Tuttle
#74. You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
Lyle Lovett
#75. Love, after all, beats Death. Every time.
Dixie Lyle
#76. The innovator is not an opponent of the old, but a proponent of the new.
Lyle E. Schaller
#77. A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.
Lyle Lovett
#78. I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.
Lyle Kessler
#79. Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.
Lyle Lovett
#80. My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
Lyle Lovett
#81. Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.
Lyle Lovett
#82. She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.
Lyle W. Dorsett
#83. If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.
Lyle Lovett
#84. You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.
Lyle Lovett
#85. My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.
Lyle Kessler
#86. Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.
Lyle Lovett
#87. Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.
Lyle Lovett
#88. You can't avoid caring for someone for fear that one day something bad will happen. You will only die alone and afraid.
Cindy Lyle
#90. I'm really just trying to do things that I enjoy. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. I just have to think if I like those different kinds of music, there are other people who aren't so different from me.
Lyle Lovett
#91. EPIC NAPPING! A NAP THAT WILL BE IMMORTALIZED FOR ALL TIME! A NAP FIT FOR THE KINGS OF ALL BEASTS!
Dixie Lyle
#92. Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.
Lyle Lovett
#93. Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex; it's perhaps an acknowledgment of women as the stronger sex.
Lyle Lovett
#94. Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.
Lyle Lovett
#95. One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn.
Lyle Lovett
#96. The anthology was not a best-seller; art as a weapon seldom is.
Lyle W. Dorsett
#97. Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer.
Lyle Lovett
#98. Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.
Lyle Lovett
#99. I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.
Lyle Lovett
#100. The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.
Lyle E. Schaller
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