Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Deavere Smith

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.

D. J. MacHale

I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

D. H. Lawrence

The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.

D. H. Lawrence

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

D. H. Lawrence

The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-dust-coloured artichokes . . . long strings of dried figs, mountains of big oranges, scarlet large peppers, a large slice of pumpkin, a great mass of colours and vegetable freshness. . . .

D. H. Lawrence

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

Daniel Defoe

This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails

Dan Castellaneta

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people

Dan Brown

Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

Alex Haley

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

Alice Foote MacDougall

For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

Ann Voskamp

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

Ann Voskamp

Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.

Albert Camus

The soul of a murderer is blind

Annie Lennox

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Andy Rooney

Walking is good for the soul.

Andre Gide

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Robert Frost

But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.

Dinah Shore

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

Crystal Waters

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

Rosa Luxemburg

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

Stephen Malkmus

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

Mick Jagger

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

Sam Elliott

She's an R&B singer, and she got back to singing and doing nice, pretty songs.

Chris Robinson

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

Jeff Vandermeer

My singing ability is zilch.

Pierce Brosnan

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