John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

I gave up my childhood for a career.

The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

God has never disappointed me.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear a song and think, 'I bet I could sing that song. I'll put that in my show.'

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.

My work is not directly about the social or political.

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

I guess I'm pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from this earth, I will have left a mark. They'll say, 'He did it well.' I like being funny; it opens people up.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.

Chocolate is natures way of making up for Mondays.

I'm pretty much game for anything.

The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers news that is personalized and nimble.

I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

I don't call him 'The Rock' to his face.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

Firefighters don't go on strike.

I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.