Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Cooley

It's just tough, especially since it's the first week,

It was getting late, and No. 1 singles went very long.

J. Taylor

It was sentimental and exciting. It was starting to sink in. I wanted to slow things down a bit.

Harry Dean Stanton

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

Greta Garbo

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

Gordon Getty

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

Gladys Knight

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

Giuseppe Verdi

I deny that either singers or conductors can create or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

Geri Halliwell

I've had singing lessons and plan to show off.

Geri Halliwell

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

Gerard Butler

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

Gerard Butler

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

Herman Melville

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

Herb Alpert

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

Henry David Thoreau

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

Henry David Thoreau

Live the life you've dreamed.

Jill Scott

Singing and acting suit me. I made a vow to myself, to do everything that I can do with this life that I have, and I have to find the time to do this. Sometimes I need to be an actress. Sometimes I don't need to be Jill.

Jill Scott

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

Jeremy Collier

Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

Eugene H. Peterson

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

Ernie Harwell

The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson.

Etta James

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

Florence King

Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

Florence Welch

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

Cassandra Clare

Jem is my greatest sin.

Guy Finley

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

Harville Hendrix

Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.

Harville Hendrix

Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.

Jackie Evancho

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Iyanla Vanzant

At every single moment, we are given the opportunity to choose our future. What we do today will determine what we face next week, next month, or next year. It is at the moment of a particular occurrence that we are called upon to make a choice: Will I do it the way I've always done it, or will I do it a different way.

Isaac Barrow

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

Jeff Buckley

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

Jean-Paul Sartre

She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.