Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

I started making music because I could.

Alanis Morissette

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Alanis Morissette

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Al Jarreau

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Al Jarreau

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

Chico Hamilton

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Charles Caleb Colton

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

Charles Spurgeon

If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

Charles Spurgeon

If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

Chris Bohjalian

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

Chris Alexander

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

Chita Rivera

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Anthony Zuiker

This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Andre Maurois

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Heinrich Heine

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Francois Rabelais

It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]