Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Arianna Huffington

We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?

Bashar al-Assad

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Rig Veda

When there is harmony between the mind, heart and resolution then nothing is impossible.

Albert Einstein

From discord, find Harmony.

Albert Einstein

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

John Baker

Pop used to be as safe as it could be. Today it's radical to hear harmony and melodies.

Jane Siberry

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Nick Hornby

I'm all for peace and harmony between the sexes.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody

Tift Merritt

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.

Andy Goldsworthy

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

Damien Chazelle

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

Frank Oz

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

Aaliyah

I'm a total performer.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Marc Walters

We have struggled to put performers on the first team because that's not how our team is built.

Peter Chapman

We have not had so many top performers before.

Juan Felipe Herrera

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Bryan Adams

I moonlight as a singer.

Eddie Marsan

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

Charisma Carpenter

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

Barbra Streisand

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

Bob Dylan

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Brad Paisley

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

Brad Delson

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Chris Brown

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Bryn Terfel

I started singing because I come from Wales

Bryan Clay

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

Diana Gabaldon

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

Celia Cruz

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

Celia Cruz

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

Cecilia Bartoli

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.