Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caroline Knapp

Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

Muriel Spark

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

Candace Bushnell

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

Nate Ruess

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

Murray Kempton

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

Kelsey Grammer

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

Kathy Mattea

Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.

Katherine Jenkins

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

Katie Couric

I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

Krist Novoselic

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Kim Edwards

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Ivan Turgenev

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

Igor Stravinsky

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Gloria Steinem

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

Gloria Steinem

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

Harry S Truman

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed. The fantastically crowded nine months of 1945 taught me that a President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt I could let up for a single moment.

J. K. Rowling

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.

Grace Jones

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

Georg Buchner

The sin is in our thoughts.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

Francis Quarles

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Hugh Leonard

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Hugh Jackman

Singing is incredibly physical.

Joan Baez

If I can do anything, sing a song, talk, listen, I'm here,

Linda Ronstadt

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'

Simon Cowell

I couldn't understand a single word you said.

Janis Joplin

I'd trade all my tommorows for a single yesterday

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.