Top 1200 George Jones Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
When I went to Gabriel Roth's studio, I showed him I was good with my hands and started working as a handyman in his studio. I asked him for a chance, and he gave me a song to sing with Sharon Jones.
Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense - the only real 12-cylinder engine - is Catherine Zeta-Jones.
I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike.
I'm sorry Alex Jones, but the content that InfoWars has been putting out is just flat out lies. You are entitled to say whatever it is that you want, that is fine; you are not entitled to a megaphone if that information is false.
'Jessica Jones' is its own animal, I think each one of these series is its own animal. There is some connective tissue, in terms of referencing the Marvel Universe, but it glances off of the other stories.
Easy, Curious George! Get your grubby hands off of that wheel!
I wanted to do 'Texas Trilogy' on stage. But it didn't do well in New York. In fact, it did very badly there, thanks to the critics. It was said that Preston Jones, the author, died of ulcer complications, but the truth was that the critics killed him.
George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.
Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, "The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005
Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.
I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend.
However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."
You need good staff with their own opinions - Mick Jones has been a great No 2 as he's not a yes-man - but at the end of the day the buck stops with you and the good managers are the ones who make more good decisions than bad.
I listened to George Carlin when I was a kid and knew every word of his routines.
My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.
My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.
The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.
I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming.
Willie Roaf kicked my butt a couple of times. Larry Allen was a guard, but one time in San Francisco he took me with one hand and threw me out of the play. Walter Jones was pretty tough, too.
We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones
Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.
Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.
George Lazenby was ill-equipped. It's not for nothing that they didn't offer him any sequels.
Some guy decided that it would be funny to put that in my Wikipedia entry. He was adamant that 'Mickey' was about Micky Dolenz. I choreographed the 'Head' movie but I didn't really know Micky at all. I knew Davy Jones much better.
My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I perform. My favorite was 'Geshray of the Vilde Kotchke,' his version of 'Cry of the Wild Goose.'
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
It's a long arc and a long storyline, and I think it leaves us in a great place to see how we interact again, whether that be for The Defenders, Jessica Jones Season 2, or whatever. We'll see. I don't know.
Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
I'm very influenced by the work of George Martin and the string arrangements that he did for the Beatles.
My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.
George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.
George Winston piano albums have been my go-to since junior high.
I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.
You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's such a goofball!
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.
Bring Your Child to Work Day -- that's how we got George W. Bush.
You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
I didn't look up to only pop stars, but I did look up to Adele, Amy Winehouse, Grimes, Robyn, Joni Mitchell, Norah Jones, M.I.A., Coldplay, Keane, and more.
George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz.
We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
I wanted to grow up to be George and Ira Gershwin from the age of about six.
The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average has closed higher in 17 of the 21 sessions since Donald Trump was elected president, with about a dozen record closes so far as it continues marching higher.
Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.
George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.
I like George Will, I don't agree with him particularly, but he's probably the smartest conservative out there.
George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?
George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.
I saw 'Tintin' in Europe - it is 'Indiana Jones' on steroids. Unbelievable. What a fantastic movie. Steven Spielberg, you rock the house. And working with those young English guys like Edgar Wright, and also Peter Jackson; what a great combination.
Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?
I would like to be George Clooney - diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
I thought that our first New York Comic Con for 'Jessica Jones' was epic because we had a pretty major reaction from the crowd after showing our first episode!
I am proud to do so for I know that by supporting George W. Bush, I serve my country well.
