Roger Miller Sayings

#1. Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers.

Roger Miller

#2. Without missing a beat Roger says, All the moneys right down here and points to the 1st three frets.

Roger Miller

#3. I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Roger Miller

#4. But you can be happy, if you've a mind to!

Roger Miller

#5. Roses are red and violets are purple,
sugar is sweet and so is maple surple.

Roger Miller

#6. There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.

Rick Moranis

#7. I swallowed darkness, and darkness swallowed me. Without light, without the beat if a heart to count the time, you learn that eternity is nothing fear. In fact, if they'd just leave you to it, an eternity alone in the dark can be a welcome alternative to the business of living.

Mark Lawrence

#8. To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!

Emily Dickinson

#9. Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Roger Miller

#10. It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.

Roger Miller

#11. Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

Roger Miller

#12. If I had my life to live over..I wouldn't have time..

Roger Miller

#13. Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in the little kindnesses from day to day ...

Edgar Cayce

#14. From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.

Kenneth R. Miller

#15. I listen to top 40, old country, blues ... I'm really into Roger Miller.

King Tuff

#16. My uncle used to love me, but she died.

Roger Miller

#17. I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

Glen Campbell

#18. The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited.

Vladimir Lenin

#19. I want my music to leave an indelible mark.

Roger Miller

#20. I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

Travis Tritt

#21. 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

William Congreve

#22. Wow. Imagine what God could have done if he'd had money.

Roger Miller

#23. Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.

Roger Miller

#24. The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.

Roger Miller

#25. Age doesn't make a man.

Roger Miller

#26. Lord Vetinari in a meeting: what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out.

Terry Pratchett

#27. I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.

Miranda Lambert

#28. And some people sing and dance.

Roger Miller