Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Miriam Makeba

I will probably die singing.

R. C. Sproul

We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

R. C. Sproul

Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

R. C. Sproul

Sin is cosmic treason

R. C. Sproul

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

Publilius Syrus

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Kristen Stewart

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

Kiri Te Kanawa

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

Kiri Te Kanawa

The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.

Olivia Wilde

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everyone has his besetting sin.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one has leave to sin.

Kelly Clarkson

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm not that girl who's really concerned with it. I've dated a bit and it's just draining to me. If it's not going to happen natural, obviously it's going to be someone in the industry because that's the only time people ever really see me.

Kelly Clarkson

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

Margaret Cho

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

Mark Twain

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Oscar Wilde

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Leon Morris

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.

Patti Page

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

Patsy Cline

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

Patti LaBelle

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

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.

Nate Ruess

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

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.