Merle Travis Quotes

#1. I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Merle Travis

#2. You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

Merle Travis

#3. When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.

Peyton Manning

#4. The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

Merle Travis

#5. ...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.

Robert Galbraith

#6. I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

Douglas Coupland

#7. I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

Terry Pratchett

#8. My father and brothers were coal miners.

Merle Travis

#9. Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Dave Eggers

#10. For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

C.S. Lewis

#12. One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.

Kyle Chandler

#13. Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

Merle Travis

#14. We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

Pema Chodron

#15. My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.

Alvin Lee

#16. In a cute relationship you will always have cutest fights without any reason

Pawan Mehra

#17. My yoga practice, I do it because when I get on my mat, I know I'm going to be transformed. I know that whatever stresses are in my life or whatever worries I have or whatever monkey mind is happening for me, when I get off the mat, I'm going to be transformed.

Michael Franti

#18. Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education.

Dhaval Gajera

#19. It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.

Douglas Rushkoff

#20. Sometimes idiots can accomplish wonderful things.

Scott Adams

#21. Revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.

L.M. Montgomery