Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois Rabelais

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

George Chapman

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

Christopher Golden

I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.'

Christine McVie

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

Christine McVie

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

Christine McVie

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

Christine McVie

I dont separate my work with the band from this solo project-Im sure the group could have recorded any of these, and they would have if the Fleetwood Mac project had come up at this time. I dont have any finished songs lying around.

Christina Perri

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

Christina Milian

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

Christina Milian

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

Christina Baker Kline

I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe.

Christina Aguilera

My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.

Christian Kane

I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.

Christian Kane

When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

Christian Kane

Jimmy Fallon is one of the funniest son of a guns I've ever seen.

Christian Lacroix

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

Chris Stein

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

Chris Martin

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

Chris Martin

I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,

Chris Martin

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

Gilbert Gottfried

I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting 'Shakedown,' a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.

Frances McDormand

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

Francesca Lia Block

I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides, exhaust, flowers that could make you sick or fall in love. My battered Impala was still parked there on the side of the road and I wanted to lie down on the shredded seats and sleep and sleep. But I thought of the bones; I could hear them singing. They needed me to write their song.

Francesca Lia Block

She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but now they were deep embedded there, all the pain of the world. Not pain to make you feel for somebody else but pain to make you stop feeling.

Francesca Lia Block

I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.

George Washington

A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.

George Santayana

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

George Nethercutt

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history,

George Michael

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

George Michael

So you scream from behind your door, say what's mine is mine, and not yours I may have too much, but I'll take my chances Cause God's stopped keeping score And you cling to the things they sold you Didn't you cover your eyes when they told you that he can't come back Cause he has no children to come back for It so hard to learn, there's so much to hate Hanging on to hope when there is no hope to speak of And the wounded skies above say it's much too late So maybe we should all be praying for time

George Michael

This was absolutely an attack on [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies." (about his latest song Shoot the Dog)

George Meredith

The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.

George Meredith

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.