Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.

Daphne du Maurier

Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her, and of his brother, and of God; while she dragged through the years, sullen and bitter, the stain of silence marking her, coming in the end to ridicule as a soured spinster who had been kissed once in her life and could not forget it.

Dan Reynolds

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

Dan Farmer

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

Dan Fogelberg

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

Dan Fogelberg

The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

Dan Fogelberg

Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.

Cynthia Weil

But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

Cynthia Weil

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

Billy Graham

On a specific day marked on the earth's calendar, and in a specific place on the earth's map, the Son of God came to the planet. It was love.

Billy Graham

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

Billy Graham

By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life, and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.

Billy Graham

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

Meryl Streep

But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.

Meryl Streep

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

Bjork

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

Bjork

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

Bjork

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

Bjork

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

Thomas Gage

But, more importantly in this situation, he is a very experienced sailor. He would not have taken any unwarranted risks, especially having his youngest son with him.

Peter Eisenman

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.

Liz Callaway

Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.

Gretchen Wilson

Most of them are man-bashing, downing guys. This one doesn't do that. 'Redneck Woman' is just a song about pride.

Lorrie Moore

Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply.

William Shakespeare

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

William Shakespeare

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

William Shakespeare

Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)

William Shakespeare

Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I

Miguel de Cervantes

Every man is the son of his own works.

Jonny Buckland

We can't wait to play our new songs live

William Shakespeare

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

William Shakespeare

I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.

Miranda Cosgrove

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.