Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Daltrey

I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.

Roger Daltrey

I used to be a great blues singer.

Roger Daltrey

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

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.

Ray Kurzweil

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

Ray Davies

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

Rajneesh

Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful moments in life. Once you have tasted a single moment of no-thought, you have taken a great leap into truth; then things will become more and more easy every day.

Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Robert Herrick

Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

Voltaire

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

William Sloane Coffin

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

William Kent Krueger

You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

William Kennedy

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

Woody Allen

For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.

Sara Bareilles

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Saint Augustine

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

Saint Augustine

Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).

Saint Augustine

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

Saint Augustine

We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

Yanni

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

Wiz Khalifa

Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

Zachary Levi

I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Willie Nelson

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.