Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin King

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Kurt Masur

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.

Charles Hazlewood

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

Brian Greene

What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

Evan Peters

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Had Beethoven been able to carry out all his plans to fruition, then, for example, today we would have his opera Macbeth, a Faust, and many others. He would have contracted himself to write a whole series of operas.

Daniel Barenboim

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

Chris Licursi

Many women like to have their hair highlighted and sometimes use several different colors. We can do all of that.

Claudio Sanchez

Occasionally, I do get stopped somewhere because people have seen the video. Sometimes it'll surprise me. I'll have my hair under a beanie, hiding it, and I'll still get stopped. Which is really like, 'Whoa! You can't really see my face!' because I have a lot of hair.

Scott Coffey

Now they're saying to test these hairs even if they're not his that doesn't prove anything. But at the time the hairs were everything to the DA's case.

Bashar al-Assad

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

David Bowie

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

Dave Mustaine

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

David Nicholls

Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his lovely, glossy hair back, and she tosses her hair in return, and he tosses his, and she tosses hers, and it;s like some mating ritual on a wildlife program.

Helena Carter

I wish I could play puppets the rest of my life, ... You don't have to worry about hair and make-up. You're not trapped by your envelope.

Mitch Hedberg

I got my hair highlighted because I thought some strands were more important than others.

Phillip Fulmer

Unless you've been around somebody that's had one of those serious neck injuries, you just don't know how devastating it can be.

Nina Garcia

I tend to wear leather pants with crew neck sweaters or leather jackets with denim.

David Mitchell

Who was blowing on the nape of my neck.

Charles Krauthammer

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Djuna Barnes

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

Kate Winslet

When I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

C. S. Lewis

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

Brooke Burns

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

Eli Wallach

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Charles M. Schulz

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

Frank Zappa

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Greg Gard

From our standpoint we have no say who we get.

James Baker

From our standpoint at least, it was a win.

Jack Nicklaus

From a tournament standpoint that will be it for me,

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Michael Jansen

I wouldn't stand in the way of that.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Charles Dickens

She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.