I'm gonna be something one of these days.

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!

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.

I have no obligation to deal with slime.

One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.

A lot of people made their first luxury fashion purchase, but at a discount. And that made it an easier purchasing decision.

I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.

"For the night is dark and full of terrors.

To play a good game you need a few players.

The quieter the mind the louder the soul.

My work always comes from the same source - from movement. It doesn't necessarily come from an outside idea, though the source can be something small or large that I've seen, often birds or other animals. The seeing can then provoke the imagining.

I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.