R. B. Hayes Quotes

I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant.

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.

When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes

Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is!

I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

That's a maple leaf, Canadian, not just for being too European but too Canadian. Not so subtly putting [Ted] Cruz's face inside that maple leaf there.

I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.

Ted Cruz who's been gaining on [Donald] Trump in Iowa and is polling ahead of him in the latest Monmouth poll would be quite reluctant to criticize Trump's plan saying simply it is not his policy.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.

In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!

I was addicted to playing music.

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.

If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?

There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

As friends go it is less important to live.

My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.