Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Hall

When we go out to sing, we are unofficially recruiting people to the school. After they hear the choir sing, they want to come to VCU.

Paul Robeson

Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

Kelly Rowland

I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.

Sydney Wayser

I made my own fictional land, which is 'Bell Choir Coast.' It was a response to feeling really, really lost, and it was what I was looking for.

Sydney Wayser

'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously.

Kelsea Ballerini

I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club.

Charles King

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

Blake Lively

I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!

Chris Greene

To me, the choir is my service to the Lord and fellow man, ... and you can't put a price tag on that.

David Winters

Weyerhaeuser is a bigger, more complicated company. They're tackling some very tough things, but some of these things you can't resolve overnight, even though Wall Street is obsessed with the short term.

Cameron Russell

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

Augusten Burroughs

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

Aaron Paul

I'm obsessed with concerts.

Gregory Keyes

I was pretty young when I saw the original 'Planet of the Apes', and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

Helen Fisher

In that early-love stage, you're in that state of exhilaration. You talk till dawn. You become obsessed with 'What does he think?' 'Does he like me?' 'Does he think I'm fat?'

Courteney Cox

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

Amanda Peet

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

Amy Acker

Ive always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

John R. Allen

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

Michiel Huisman

Stepping on set is always overwhelming.