S.J. Watson Quotes

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.

You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is.

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are.

I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel.

I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns.

Don't be ashamed if you don't like what others pretend to love

I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf.

If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.

If scientists don't play God, who will?

In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear.

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.

None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.

We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy.

My mom raised me to be successful and not be a knucklehead and do the wrong things. She still talks to me to this day about those things.

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

I've never had a dream go this far, so I can't really say it's a dream come true.

If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties.

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.

I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.