Famous Quotes & Sayings

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.

The future is wider than vision, and has no end.

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

Donald Fagen

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

Tom Araya

Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!

Terry Kath

This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!

Marian Anderson

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Marian Anderson

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

Mark Hoppus

We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.

Michelle Branch

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I'd know that I tried.

Michael Nesmith

There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.

Mike Curb

When I was lieutenant governor, Jerry Brown was governor and you might recall that he spent just about a year of my term out of the state.

Michael Bolton

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.

Jon Crosby

We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.

Al Jardine

We're somehow confined to our name, the Beach Boys; it confines you to a certain image, but there's so much there that's so rich.

Garth Brooks

When we had hot lunch in elementary school, I liked those biscuits they served. You could smell them about an hour before lunch.

Grandmaster Flash

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

Justin Guarini

With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.

Joe Henderson

Since Buzz joined my runs, I too have run more laps - slower and bigger ones than he might otherwise do, but laps just the same.

Peabo Bryson

She and Celine Dion are my two favorite people in the entire world. I feel similar ways about Celine. I love her energy. I love being around her.

Bootsy Collins

Since Warner Brothers, back in the day, I hadn't never really had nobody that I think that was there, that I kinda felt was working like my right arm.

Harry Chapin

She knows more of love than the poets can say,And her eyes offer something that won't go away.

Chico Hamilton

Most people would be disappointed, myself particularly, if I were to come up with the sound of the early 'sixties, or of the 'fifties even.

Kristin Hersh

Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

Matt Cameron

Most of the time we've had some interesting opening bands, like Cheap Trick opened for us a few times and that was a total thrill.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

Chico Hamilton

Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people.

Suzy Bogguss

Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.