Mine Quotes

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.

I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.

I don't understand executives that pit women against each other, the fact that they brought in 'Body of Proof,' Dana Delaney is a friend of mine, and the two of us were just rolling our eyes, it's like, of course, you finally have two great female leads and you're going to put us on against each other.

That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.