By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it…

New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the…

— Bill Maher

“I continued toward Atlanta with a Merle Haggard C.D. playing on the stereo. They weren't great hosts, but those guys in The Ted Kaczynski…

— Ian McClellan

In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful…

— Anonymous

She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that…

— William Watson

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same…

— Tanya Tucker

“managed to break my nose on my own knee, which, although it was clearly an extraordinary achievement, had the same effect on me that…

— Douglas Adams

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

— Bronislaw Malinowski

I listen to Lil Wayne, and then I listen to Merle Haggard.

— Tyler Farr

My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I…

— Loudon Wainwright III

May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

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…

— Aaron Watson

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with…

— Richard Yates

If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take that stuff…

— Buzz Osborne

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley.…

— Jake Owen

I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy…

— Cody Johnson