Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felicia Hemans

Come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass.

Felix Frankfurter

In law also the emphasis makes the song.

Fefe Dobson

I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.

Fefe Dobson

When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

Feist

Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

Fat Joe

Lil Wayne is the best rapper on Earth. Can't nobody touch him. He's the only guy who can put out 300 songs a year and they all fire.

Fat Joe

You bring life to my world you give me strength to go on And face life even when it seems all hopes gone Labeled my wife but you truly exceed the title You my future my happiness my heart my idol

Fanny Crosby

Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.

Fanny Crosby

It is not enough to have a song on your lips. You must also have a song in your heart.

Fanny Brice

Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.

Fantasia Barrino

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

Farley Mowat

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

Fanny Burney

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

Faith Hill

I don't write my own songs. I don't have time.

Faith Hill

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

F. L. Lucas

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

F. Murray Abraham

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

Ezra Pound

And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness

Ezra Pound

Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera....

Eugene O'Neill

We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.

Eugene O'Neill

Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?

Euripides

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

Euripides

To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

Euripides

Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

Francis of Assisi

Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

Francis of Assisi

Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.

Francis Chan

It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

Francis Bacon

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

Frances McDormand

It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

Eric Clapton

Thanks for waiting all these years, ... We're going to play every song we know.

Sony has always wanted to go its own way,

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.