"I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did."

-- Edward Ruscha

#Country Quotes #Art Quotes #Fun Quotes

“I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.”

Source : Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.
“As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure”

Source : "CNN Newsroom" with Martin Savidge, www.cnn.com. January 22, 2011.
“The trick to education is to teach people in such a way that they donâ€™t realize theyâ€™re learning until itâ€™s too late.”
“There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.”
“Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him.”
“...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.”
“most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.”

Source : "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Poetry in War and Peace" (p. 129), 1980.
“I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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