Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Cash

and then come back with a song I can sell.

Scott Storch

The stuff is surprising. Every song we do now is, like, totally amazing.

Jennifer Armstrong

Storytelling, writing, and song writing are so connected.

Eric Clapton

Thanks for waiting all these years, ... We're going to play every song we know.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Bruce Springsteen

This is a song tax, ... for not being (in Madison) for so long.

Paula Abdul

You're way better than that song choice. It didn't show your range, it didn't show your personality.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

William Shatner

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

William James

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Walter Kirn

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

Ronald Reagan

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

James Franco

Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That’s what my reflection told me.

Nelson Mandela

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

Carly Fiorina

Somehow a U.N. resolution about Syria puts us where we need to be? I think it is a reflection of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's beliefs that our foreign policy gets set by others.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.

Mary Catherine Bateson

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

Richard Rohr

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Mike Love

Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through some very stressful life experiences while remaining centered.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.

Joko Beck

Meditation is not about doing something

Nhat Hanh

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

Nhat Hanh

Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.

Nhat Hanh

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you sit, everything sits with you.

Shunryu Suzuki

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.