Adventure Quote by Wilbur Smith

Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in…

— Anonymous

“By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.”

— John Buchan

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Tyler Farr

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

— Bronislaw Malinowski

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

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