Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. It is pure affection, and filled with reverance for the solitude of others. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Thomas Merton

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

Thomas Carlyle

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

Tom Wopat

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

Stella McCartney

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

Simon Cowell

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

Shirley MacLaine

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

Shenae Grimes

Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

Red Buttons

Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!

Tom Jones

I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.

Tom Jones

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

Thomas Adams

Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.

Victor Hugo

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

Vernor Vinge

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Rita Wilson

I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

Rita Mae Brown

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

Renee Fleming

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

Rumi

When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.

Toby Keith

That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.

Stephanie Klein

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

Susanna Kaysen

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

Taryn Manning

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

Scott Westerfeld

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.

Steven Morrissey

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.

Sue Grafton

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Ricky Skaggs

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows.

T. S. Eliot

In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Truman Capote

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

Trey Songz

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.