Top 82 Quotes About Merritt
#1. Taking care of the details was probably how Merritt took back control, and Loralee wondered whether every girl who lost her mother did the same thing when life got muddier than a puddle.
Karen White
#2. Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age.
Jane Leavy
#3. He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?
Rutherford B. Hayes
#4. I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
Merritt Wever
#5. I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.
Tift Merritt
#6. My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.
Tift Merritt
#7. Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.
William Merritt Chase
#8. Music is like a really sacred, awesome thing. That first 45 minutes to two hours that you're on stage spending time with music every night is always really great.
Tift Merritt
#9. You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words.
Stephin Merritt
#10. A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
Dixon Lanier Merritt
#11. Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.
Merritt Wever
#12. You can move from normal to real peace in 57 minutes.
Lionel Merritt
#13. Nothing was ever easy or simple, not one blasted thing.
Jackie Merritt
#14. The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?
Merritt A. Edson
#15. This too shall pass." It confirms that you can and should expect change and Uncertainty as a natural part of your life experience because nothing (and no thing) lasts forever. The sooner you learn this life lesson, the less you shall suffer.
Dennis Merritt Jones
#16. I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
Tift Merritt
#17. My work is has always been very, very personal.
Tift Merritt
#18. I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.
Tift Merritt
#19. There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.
Merritt A. Edson
#20. We will never have a world free of violence until we teach our children to carry peace in their hearts, not guns in their hands.
Donna Marie Merritt
#21. I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much about the musicians as the engineering. It's post-production that's being done by the musician at the time.
Stephin Merritt
#22. It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.
William Merritt Chase
#23. Someone told me - maybe it was the ugly one, unafraid to bash his own kind - that spine surgeons are weak among surgeons, that you can't really fix a back so you go in there and fuck around and bill the shit out of the insurance company and refer the patient to pain management.
Merritt Tierce
#24. You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive.
Tift Merritt
#25. I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
William Merritt Chase
#26. When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.
Tift Merritt
#27. God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.
Merritt Y. Hughes
#30. In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.
Tift Merritt
#31. To learn more, we have to be willing to leave the zone of the known and step into the void.
Dennis Merritt Jones
#32. Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask ... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.
William Merritt Chase
#34. I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.
Tift Merritt
#35. New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.
Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.
#36. Here we are being hard and relentlessly dazzling in spite of whatever shit. We are saying to each other If you have an affliction, any remorse or anguish, eat it, drink it, snort it, fuck it, use it, suck it, kill it.
Merritt Tierce
#37. I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.
Tift Merritt
#38. I think that there are a lot of things that come along with being a musician, but I don't want to whine about them. I don't want to complain about my job.
Tift Merritt
#39. I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.
Merritt Wever
#40. You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.
William Merritt Chase
#41. Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.
Merritt Wever
#42. Success is doing everything you could the right way and saying man, I did the best I could - that's success.
Aries Merritt
#44. Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
William Merritt Chase
#48. You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.
Tift Merritt
#49. Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
William Merritt Chase
#50. I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.
Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.
#51. I really love music, and I definitely love playing music and getting to be a part of music.
Tift Merritt
#52. I really enjoy being outside in L.A. because it's so warm and sunny.
Merritt Patterson
#53. Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.
William Merritt Chase
#54. I wish I didn't want the exotic man who knows the entire history of jazz, and instead wanted the teacher, who has his flaws but whose kindness is as rare as genius.
Merritt Tierce
#55. France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.
Tift Merritt
#56. I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].
William Merritt Chase
#57. Surf is that music which is entirely about evoking something. There's never any vocals, so it's not about the lyrics, it's about the reverb.
Stephin Merritt
#58. I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.
Tift Merritt
#59. The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.
Tift Merritt
#60. One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.
Merritt A. Edson
#61. Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.
Tift Merritt
#62. I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.
Tift Merritt
#63. I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.
Merritt Wever
#64. I do think there are trends in your life once you've been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
Merritt Wever
#65. I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.
Merritt Wever
#67. I burn my neck with a fondue skewer while you watch The Cosby Show on my bed.
Merritt Tierce
#68. As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.
Tift Merritt
#69. I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.
Tift Merritt
#70. Every Brit I met had the best sense of humor. They're hilarious: very dry and witty.
Merritt Patterson
#71. I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.
Merritt Wever
#72. I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.
Merritt Wever
#75. A sign in the window advertised the
long extinct Miller Genuine Draft.
Tom Merritt
#76. I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.
Tift Merritt
#77. Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.
Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.
#78. The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.
James Merritt
#79. Life is very short ... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
William Merritt Chase
#80. I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.
Stephin Merritt
#81. A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with.
Tift Merritt
#82. Driven by fear, people run for security to mountains and forests, to sacred spots and shrines. But none of these can be a safe refuge, because they cannot free the mind from fear. - THE DHAMMAPADA
Dennis Merritt Jones
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