I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.

I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

I'm gonna walk a little bit of dog.

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!

I'm gonna be something one of these days.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

I was shocked, and I ended up contacting three academics to find out if it could possibly be that my grandmother was a courtesan.

Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.

I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms.

I've done two USO Tours, one in the Middle East and one in Asia, and spent time with the troops.

Into every life a little rain must fall

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

Triple tongued is triple named.

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

Customer service is an opportunity to exceed your customers expectations.

I am not against migration. It is simply pragmatic to restrict migration, while at the same time encouraging integration and fighting discrimination. I support the idea of the free movement of goods, people, money and jobs in Europe.

Many families think of church as if it was a convention they send one delegate.

Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

If music be the food of love, play on.

If you need medical advice let these three things be your physicians a cheerful mind relaxation from business and a moderate diet

I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.

Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.

When you shop online, wouldn't you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or the subtle fragrance of flowers before surrendering your credit card number? Surely more companies will want to aromatize their Web presence when they realize there's a device that can produce genuinely pleasing, authentic fragrances.

To all companies large and small, I would say this: the British economy is fundamentally strong; we are highly competitive, and we are open for business.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

I am a wonderful human being.

I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.