Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cecelia Ahern

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

Antoine Rivarol

Silence never yet betrayed any one!

Antoine Rivarol

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

William Shakespeare

The rest, is silence.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...

Bebe Neuwirth

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

Becca Fitzpatrick

In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I called Vee. "How are you doing?" I asked. "Good. How are you?" "Good." Silence. "Okay," Vee said in a rush, "I am still totally freaked out. You?" "Totally.

E. F. Schumacher

That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

Agatha Christie

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Don DeLillo

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Ernest Hemingway

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

Frank Zappa

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

Jethro Tull

He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.

Sammy Hagar

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

Lincoln Child

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

James Cook

There are alternate explanations for everything.

Meat Loaf

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

Chuck D.

Melody is an important part of all the music I've written. I think that's why it has been so successful. It's music that sticks in your head.

Erich Bergen

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

Billy Bob Thornton

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

Ariel Pink

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Drake Bell

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

Aaron Copland

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Douglas Levine

But other than that, I go from the text and the rhythms of the words. The melody comes from that,

Burning Spear

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?