Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Scott

We want 'em to sing with us. We want 'em to sing out.

Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Charlotte Bronte

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Charlie Chaplin

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

Charlie Chaplin

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles Spurgeon

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

Charles Spurgeon

He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Jane Austen

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

William Shakespeare

What is more miserable than discontent?

Ben Okri

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

Brendan Behan

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

Benny Hill

Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?

Edward Abbey

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

Robert Holden

Many people are out without shelter. It was miserable to start with but with this things are only going to get worse.

Billy Collins

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

Russ Moore

We're going to McDonald's. We had a miserable day.

Elaine Pagels

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.