Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

Terry Pratchett

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

Terence McKenna

And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Shania Twain

I really can't imagine not singing again.

Sean Kinney

We got famous off singing about a chicken.

Shirley Bassey

When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.

Shelby Lynne

I was singing before I could talk.

Sean Paul

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up.

Lemmy Kilmister

Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.

Lee Kuan Yew

Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.

Marcus Aurelius

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

Thomas a Kempis

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Rosemary Clooney

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

Samuel Johnson

A vow is a snare for sin

Samuel Johnson

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Sade Adu

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.

Rufus Wainwright

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

Rocco Buttiglione

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

Roberto Duran

De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa

Tina Fey

I don't live the single life and never really did.

Rosa Luxemburg

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

Sharon Jones

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.

Sharon Jones

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

Sharon Osbourne

Talent is a gift from God. That is something that you are born with. To be able to be born with singing talent is just a gift. You can learn how to sing better, but you cannot learn to sing with certain quality. It is just something you are born with.

Sharon Salzberg

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

MyAnna Buring

It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.

Taylor Swift

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Tony Bennett

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

Tony Bennett

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

Simone Weil

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

Simone Weil

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

Simon Mawer

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.