Famous Quotes & Sayings

Djuna Barnes

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

Bryan Sykes

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

Chamique Holdsclaw

A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.'

Bernie Mac

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.

Camille Paglia

Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard !

Billy Strayhorn

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

Cassandra Wilson

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

Chelsea Clinton

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

Chelsea Clinton

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Bernadette Peters

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

Eoin Colfer

Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Bryn Terfel

I started singing because I come from Wales

Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Chris Brown

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Charlotte Church

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

Bryan Clay

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

Gail Carriger

I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

Clint Eastwood

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.

Nat Wolff

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

Nikki Sixx

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

C. S. Lewis

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Carl Rakosi

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

Bill Burr

My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.

Bethany Hamilton

Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning

Bertrand Russell

It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.