Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Charles Caleb Colton

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Charles Caleb Colton

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

Charles Dickens

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Charles Dickens

All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

Charles Dickens

I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

Charles Simmons

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

Alan Jackson

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

David Walker

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Bob Weir

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Boethius

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Charles Spurgeon

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Chuck Mangione

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.

Robert Fripp

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Rachel Cohn

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

Eamon

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

Bob Hope

I can still chase women, only downhill

Brian J. White

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

Jason Alexander

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

Brigitte Bardot

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

Antonio Davis

I'm still doing something I love to do.

Eckhart Tolle

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

David Bowie

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.