Mr. Shaw drove his team gingerly across the new bridge, ... Once across, he quickly found a spot to ...
JOHN RAITT Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up o...
BONNIE RAITT A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like...
BONNIE RAITT Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good s...
BONNIE RAITT I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together...
BONNIE RAITT I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers ...
BONNIE RAITT I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by travel...
BONNIE RAITT Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.
BONNIE RAITT Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the nativ...
BONNIE RAITT 'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cata...
BONNIE RAITT Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their t...
BONNIE RAITT Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half an...
BONNIE RAITT My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
BONNIE RAITT The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywh...
BONNIE RAITT Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steame...
BONNIE RAITT I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It...
BONNIE RAITT I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
BONNIE RAITT I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
BONNIE RAITT Sarah and the women did an incredible thing last year, and I don't think the music business will eve...
BONNIE RAITT [And while the audience waited patiently for what turned out to be a rather perfunctory] Something t...
BONNIE RAITT There wouldn't be any rhythmic music if not for sexuality. Sensuality and sexuality is at once compl...
BONNIE RAITT Two women guitar players on stage at the same time, ... and it took Maria Muldaur to do it.
BONNIE RAITT I was very touched, and very happy that Kelly won. It was such a Cinderella story.
BONNIE RAITT It's a great opportunity for all of us to raise the ante and the attention for something that needs ...
BONNIE RAITT It's not easy to undo what's done, or to speak too freely ,to just anyone, and if this takes more, t...
BONNIE RAITT People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs abou...
BONNIE RAITT I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.
BONNIE RAITT I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
BONNIE RAITT In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I ...
BONNIE RAITT At 3 A.M., I'm still up watching videos of jazz heroes I never saw live. It's so thrilling. ...
BONNIE RAITT I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whet...
BONNIE RAITT I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I onl...
BONNIE RAITT One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be su...
BONNIE RAITT I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
BONNIE RAITT Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early...
BONNIE RAITT I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I ...
BONNIE RAITT I'm completely thrilled to be a part of this. I have to say, this is the highlight of the summer for...
BONNIE RAITT What - of all the incredible duets that I've been able to sing, you know, John Raitt was still t...
BONNIE RAITT I just was knocked over by the obvious roots of the blues.
BONNIE RAITT He used to let me open for him and he tuned my guitar.
BONNIE RAITT [Barbra Streisand submits the unreleased] I Believe, ... I Will Not Be Broken.
BONNIE RAITT in light of recent events that brought out the best and worst of us.
BONNIE RAITT He's like having my very own Jimi Hendrix, ... There's simply nothing he can't play well.
BONNIE RAITT Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exci...
BONNIE RAITT I Can't Make You Love Me.
BONNIE RAITT Everyone in my record collection -- Sam and Dave, Marvin Gaye, all the Motown acts, Ruth Brown, all ...
BONNIE RAITT I am very excited to get in this early (in my career), especially being the only woman tonight, ... ...
BONNIE RAITT When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wro...
BONNIE RAITT Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already bee...
BONNIE RAITT Tell Your Heart I Love You
BONNIE RAITT I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
BONNIE RAITT The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, al...
BONNIE RAITT There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The rati...
BONNIE RAITT [When the sweeping ballad Shelter in the Rain took on new meaning after Hurricane Katrina, he earmar...
BONNIE RAITT I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest b...
BONNIE RAITT What do you think? Baby, you're behind the times.
BONNIE RAITT I Don't Want Anything to Change.
BONNIE RAITT He really changed the way that people sing,
BONNIE RAITT I Will Not Be Broken.
BONNIE RAITT She's got a real attitude for standing up for what she thinks. She plays a mean guitar, she's a grea...
BONNIE RAITT So much hope in the room and out there in the country.
BONNIE RAITT These guys are incredibly gifted in their own right, ... but over the last few years, we've grown in...
BONNIE RAITT I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather ...
BONNIE RAITT I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our jo...
BONNIE RAITT I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide,...
BONNIE RAITT My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim...
JOHN BOLTON Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd...
JOHN BOLTON You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo...
JOHN BOLTON Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
JOHN BOLTON