Quotes About John Hiatt

#1. I could never be with someone who wasn't excited by rainstorms

David Levithan

#2. It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

John Hiatt

#3. If Jesus honored His mother hanging on a cross,
how much more should men honor their mothers?

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. I see you over there, just clinging to the wall. Because they told you like ivy you were bound to crawl. But you kept looking up, girl, and I know why. You knew someday you were gonna touch the sky.

John Hiatt

#5. I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated ... I was deeply impressed.

Saul Bellow

#6. Say it...out loud.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

Milton H. Erickson

#8. There is always safety in valor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#10. I am the student who picks his nose, so come over here and take off your clothes.

John Hiatt

#11. I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

John Hiatt

#12. He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.

John Hiatt

#13. Whatever your hands find to do, you must do with all your heart.

John Hiatt

#14. He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that mansion on a hill, where you can get your prescription filled.

John Hiatt

#15. Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.

Tertullian

#16. I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

Rand Paul

#17. When the road gets dark - And you can no longer see - Just let my love throw a spark - And have a little faith in me.

John Hiatt

#18. My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

John Hiatt

#19. I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

Bill Gates

#20. Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong,

John Hiatt

#21. Edward was always focused, watching and also listening to what others couldn't see.

Stephenie Meyer

#22. I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.

John Hiatt

#23. The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family.

Bryant McGill

#24. Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death.

John Hiatt

#25. The personification of philistine triumphalism

Salman Rushdie

#26. Motorboat to heaven, baby's got the key. Tell me, how am I supposed to get in close back here on these water skis?

John Hiatt