“By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old and sick, more than one hundred years Face haggard, hair white, I'm happy to still live in the mountains A cloth… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
“Now he seemed to be stranded for the rest of his life on a world unknown, more exotic than anywhere Haggard ever… — Dave Duncan Copy Share Image
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and… — Trisha Yearwood Copy Share Image
Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin"… — Aaron Watson Copy Share Image
Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Country music tends to be so sentimental and homespun, it's easy to stumble into self-parody, but Haggard has brought a freshness to… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned… — William Watson Copy Share Image
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… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“managed to break my nose on my own knee, which, although it was clearly an extraordinary achievement, had the same effect on… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it,… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged… — Moby Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me… — George Canning Copy Share Image
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
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… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
“I continued toward Atlanta with a Merle Haggard C.D. playing on the stereo. They weren't great hosts, but those guys in The… — Ian McClellan Copy Share Image
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash. — Iris DeMent Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams...all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times...they're… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts... — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since. — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
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