Haines Quotes & Sayings

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out. — Emily Haines

Where is Wildene?"
"Just step out the door and holler "Sooie! Sooie! She's a ho hog if ever I saw one. She'll come running. — Carolyn Haines

I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left. — Randa Haines

I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their own path and have the inspiration and the drive to, and the energy and dedication to take their path to its fruition. I don't really believe in formulas. — Emily Haines

Everyone who loves risks losing their heart every minute of every day. — Carolyn Haines

Dependence, see, is not always so ill-placed. Dependence can be a good and holy thing. — Seth Haines

I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path. — Emily Haines

To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things. — John Haines

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad. — Emily Haines

- The ballad of joking Jesus, Stephen answered.
- O, Haines said, you have heard it before?
- Three times a day, after meals, Stephen said drily.
- You're not a believer, are you? Haines asked . I mean, a believer in the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing and miracles and a personal God.
- There's only one sense of the word, it seems to me, Stephen said.

21 — James Joyce

I've found comfort in the notion that David-man after God's own heart-was often tortured and confused. — Seth Haines

Wasn't it Jesus who noted that children have special insight? (Luke 18:17) Perhaps it'd do me good to climb a few trees and listen more for the wind these days. — Seth Haines

Had God pulled me from Adam's rib and placed me naked in the garden, the story would be no different. Let's not blame Eve anymore. If she hadn't eaten the fruit, it would most certainly have been me. I would have eaten it again and again, and then I would have given you a bite. — Amber C. Haines

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death. — Emily Haines

Somewhere, my thirst for distraction from the pains and poverties of life grew into a sweltering, parching thing. There are always feelings to be numbed, anxieties to tamp down, and panic attacks to avoid. The people of the Shire knew this, and so do I. I suppose I could have turned to things eternal - didn't Jesus promise us rest? - but we seem to have a way of losing ourselves in our manmade salves - the bottle, the pill, the cheeseburger, self-inflicted starvation. I suppose we're all drunk on something. — Seth Haines

I own a crevice stuffed with moss
and a couch of lemming fur;
I sit and listen to the music
of water dripping on a distant stone.
Or I sing to myself
of stealth and loneliness
No one comes to see me
but I hear outside
the scratching of claws,
the warm, inquisitive breath ...
(from 'The Hermitage') — John Meade Haines

A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does. — Randa Haines

Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic. — Emily Haines

I have been told that this kind of unraveling of nerves is natural, that It'll be around for a while. But if this is meant as consolation, it brings no cheer. — Seth Haines

Of all books printed, probably not more than half are ever read. Many are embalmed in public libraries; many go into private quarters to fill spaces; many are glanced at and put away ... scarcely opened until the fire needs kindling. The most ardent book-lovers are not always the greatest readers; indeed, the rabid bibliomaniac seldom reads at all. To him books are as ducats to the miser, something to be hoarded and not employed ... So pleasant it is to buy book; so tiresome to utilize them. — Flora Haines Loughead

A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream. — Randa Haines

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue. — Randa Haines

There is a trick to this mystery of faith, I think. It is not a difficult concept, but in practice, it's harder than charging hell with water pistols. — Seth Haines

He who seeks revenge should dig two graves. — Mick Haines

When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way — Luke Haines

recovery will be tied to routine; risk of relapse tied to noise. God is hard enough to find in the quietness. — Seth Haines

I'm falling in love with you, Mike Haines." As I spoke, with every word his arms got tighter and tighter and his face, already close, became a breath away.
"Angel, you're already gone."
I blinked and asked, "Sorry?"
"I read your diaries. I caught your pass in that hotel room. I listened to your offer to stay. I saw you wave good-bye at the airport and got your call before I'd pulled out of the parking lot. You fell with a kiss. I know, honey, because I was right there with you. — Kristen Ashley

You got the this place lookin' like a whore-house. Jitty said. — Carolyn Haines

Tinkie's on the list."
"That's ridiculous. She and Enzo were only flirting."
"And Oscar showed his ass and then was seen floundering in the bayou where a blow-up sex doll, complete with a death threat, later showed up in front of an entire town." ...
"Even though they don't have a body, Pret is thinking Enzo's disappearance may prove to be a homicide. — Carolyn Haines

I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic. — Luke Haines

I need to concede a considerable area to what I don't know and can't know, and perhaps don't wish to know. Only to understand in a way I do not quite understand. — John Haines

The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you, Mr. Haines. You're not living up to your part of the bargain. — Davis Bunn

Boopsy's Boutique catered to the woman, or man, with money and lots of it. Date dresses ran upward of a thousand dollars, and some of the high-end designer frocks touched five figures. The dresses were exquisite, emblazoned with crystals and pearls, complete with jewel-encrusted shoes to match. Needless to say, it wasn't a place I frequented. — Carolyn Haines

The Auteurs have become Luke Haines. I ate their bodies, spat out the pips, and sucked up their souls. — Luke Haines

That's the whole point to the Scientific Method. It can never actually verify truth, but it can show what is not true. — Jim Haines

This is a record I ended up having to make to get on to the next stage of my life. What I did was a desperate thing to do. I'm aware of the fact that it was irrational. I didn't mean to make it sound like it was my master plan. The tour had even been going all right, but I was just kind of fed up with the situation as it was, playing the same old rock and roll crap that everyone goes through, the general moaning when you really should be grateful that you don't work in the checkout counter at the grocery. — Luke Haines

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them. — John Haines

Don't believe everything you think! — Melody Haines

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought. — Emily Haines

Forgiveness, I am learning, cannot stand as a single, once-and-for-all event. Every morning brings a fresh coffeepot, and a fresh chance to get back to this messy and necessary work. — Seth Haines

To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it. — Randa Haines

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it. — Emily Haines

[When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it. — Emily Haines

There can be no present, without past actions committed — C.J. Haines

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound. — Randa Haines

The only real freedom we have left is the home. Only there can we express anything we want. — William Haines

This was my first conscious barter. Trading pain for the closest vice, I slipped into a knowing numbness. Prayer seemed an impotent remedy — Seth Haines

Sure, I saw enlisted men everyday, but once they donned their uniforms and committed their lives, they became a mirage. The minute you approached them, you knew they would disappear bit by bit until the only thing left was a memory. — Kathryn Miller Haines

Lucky Tyler: "Yeah, you're here, looking more like the preacher's wife come calling than an overnight alibi. Who's gonna believe I tumbled you?" The devil in him was kicking up his heels, goading him to say things he knew damn well would rub her the wrong way. But he felt he was justified in being ornery. He didn't particularly like her attitude either.
Devon Haines:"What did you expect me to wear? A negligee?"
Lucky Tyler: "I
— Sandra Brown

He didn't know why she was there, didn't know why she kept coming back, didn't know, she could have a good man like Haines, why she left Haines's house and ended her night in Cal's bed. And he didn't care. She was there. — Kristen Ashley

Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom. — Randa Haines

There's no such thing as can't! — Ann Haines

I've become dependent upon something other than the God I claim. — Seth Haines

Storytellers need their stories to resonate with their listeners. So when you envision a goal and describe the action needed to reach that goal, you transform your vision into a portrayal that depicts what's truly possible to move people to action. While you need enough material (data and reasoned analysis) to flesh out the tale, you don't want to bombard people with charts and tables. — Steven Haines

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect. — Emily Haines

I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it. — Randa Haines

If I could have been a cowgirl, I might have never written a word. — Carolyn Haines

Tell me, Sarah Booth, is it your body that's hurt or your heart?"
"Whatever it is, it'll mend. — Carolyn Haines

I had finished a book yesterday and was in that annoying phase of still being so involved in its storyline that I was unable to commit to a new novel, although I had several waiting to be read. — Penelope Haines

Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, requires a lower, humble position before both God and man. Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, is not the natural inclination of man, and I must fight for it. — Seth Haines

There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it. — Randa Haines

I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that ... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube. — Emily Haines

There's a good reason I am a writer. I'm completely useless at anything else. — Derek Haines

I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.' — Randa Haines

And right then, staring at Dusty Holliday, Clarisse Haines fell in love. — Kristen Ashley

The deliberate effort of memory for small detail is a social grace that will take a person far. — Carolyn Haines

It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not. — Emily Haines

Pop's leg was across the room when I came downstairs. — Kathryn Miller Haines

Believe in the power of songs, — Emily Haines

From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened. — Helen E. Haines

the toasting of joys and the drowning of sorrows are closer kin than one might imagine. — Seth Haines

If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me. — Randa Haines

My Christmas tree glimmered with lights, ornaments, and tinsel. Though such holiday trimmings weren't in vogue any longer, I loved them. I pulled every box of family decorations from the attic and glamored the tree until it looked like a "fancy woman in a cheap brothel" as my aunt Loulane would say. — Carolyn Haines

The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led inward also. And from the study of things underfoot, and from reading and thinking, came a kind of exploration, myself and the land. In time the two became one in my mind. With the gathering force of an essential thing realizing itself out of early ground, I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing
to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. — John Haines

I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'. — Luke Haines

Forest Gump had it wrong. Life is not a box of chocolate; it's a kaleidoscope. In the flip of a wrist, realities are shredded and the world takes on a totally new shape. — Carolyn Haines

If I cry for help, will the wind hear me? If I turn my thoughts upward, will there be the invisible father? Will he be here? I'm still not sure I'm ready to find out. I'm not quite sure whether I'm ready to be unstuck. — Seth Haines

Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community. — John Haines

It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money. — Randa Haines

I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing
to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. To take the trail and not look back..Let the rest of mankind find me if it could. — John Haines

Jonas Haines of Broken Bird Marries Model Adriana Rivera in Vegas — Kristen Ashley

She's smart and a hard worker."
"And?"
"A little on the crazy side." Cece inhaled with resignation. "I was overjoyed when the district elected a woman, but Rebecca's half a bubble off plumb. — Carolyn Haines

Then he walked home thinking he'd given Clarisse Haines her first kiss and thinking it would far from suck if he was also the guy who gave her her last and no one in between — Kristen Ashley

I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground. — Emily Haines

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound. — Emily Haines

When the disaster began to hit the wealthy as well, the "modern scientific methods of development based solidly on capitalism" (Haines) suddenly became proofs of the evils of statism and socialism - another quick transition that takes place when needed. To — Noam Chomsky

It's in the doubt, the ways we murder God when we most need him. — Seth Haines

Fuck going into work today. Do you have any alcohol? — Jess Haines

My rhythm was joined with that of the Mississippi seasons. To change would shift everything inside of me ... — Carolyn Haines

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly. — Barbara Haines Howett

If someone asks you to make a cup of coffee, make the best cup of coffee they've ever had, because why would they trust you with anything else if you can't do that? No task is too small. — Sara Haines

The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express. — Emily Haines

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Visit me in my affliction; give me a sense of oneness in you, a home in you. Do not let me escape. — Seth Haines

That's one thing I like about you, Sarah Booth. You put your own personal style on a room. I'd call this boudoir pigsty. Yes sir, any man would find this an enticin' little love nest, if he didn't break his neck tryin' to get to the bed. — Carolyn Haines

- You're not a believer, are you? Haines asked. I mean, a believer in the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing and miracles and a personal God. - There's only one sense of the word, it seems to me, Stephen said. — James Joyce

We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate. — Allan Haines Loughead

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy. — Randa Haines

But between these two men she loved, both in one way or another holding her close always, Clarisse Haines knew she would never fall. — Kristen Ashley

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things. — Emily Haines

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to acutally live take a lot of courage. — Emily Haines