Summed Quotes

"Yeah, it sounds like such a bohemian thing to do, doesn`t it? But as badly as Alabama wanted that song ("Walkin` the Country"), I thought we needed the song. I didn`t have a deal at that point, but I thought that would be one of the key songs for us. It was a perfect marriage of lyric and melody and groove that summed up what we were about. I was renting a really old house, for $400 a month, over in Berry Hill. But the money`s no good if you haven`t got a career. I can`t buy a career, and I believed in that song as a way to get my thing out there. Even if it only ended up on CMT, which is what happened, that`s good enough. I do care about money, but I`ve never done anything for the money. . . . My first thought is credibility: doing what you do and not getting swayed by whatever everyone else tells you."

(While in Morocco,) Michael J. Pollard and I would sit around writing lyrics all day, talking about Bob Dylan and The Band, thinking up ridiculous plots for the movie. Before I left Morocco, Pollard wrote in my book `The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.` For me, it summed him up. He had this tremendous rebel attitude. He walked around in his cowboy boots, his leather jacket. At the time he was a heavy little dude. It seemed to sum up all the people of that generation who were just rebels. The `Low Spark,` for me, was the spirit, high-spirited. You know, standing on a street corner. The low rider. The `Low Spark` meaning that strong undercurrent at the street level.

Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it`s kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don`t what else I can say about it. It`s a great thing to do, something I`m definitely proud of.

The government`s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

My whole career can be summed up with `Ignorance is bliss.` When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

He always called me Brother Lowe. He was always exceptionally generous to me, kind, friendly, ... He`d always be at the park early and when you looked down at the sign-in sheet it would say: `Cheek. Radio`. That`s all. Looking back, it summed him up.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--`Wait and hope`.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

My approach to life can`t be summed up in a pithy quote, and if yours can, you`re in trouble.

It kind of summed up our day,

Government`s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope

Oh, Errol Flynn, I`ve never had the yen. Victor Mature? Don`t know him well but believe Dorothy Parker, a good friend of mine, summed it up well when she said, "He acts as though his body has gone to his head!" My favorite actor of course is Orson Welles. He`s wonderful, magnificent, a darling, and I adore him. I like Humphrey Bogart, too. He`s just as nice as he can be and looks just the same all the time. Ingrid Bergman? She`s just as beautiful and natural off the screen as she is on and is admired by everyone. But one of the nicest people in Hollywood is William Faulkner, who I had known in Mississippi when I was getting my Masters Degree in Philosophy at the University there."