Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Winehouse

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Amy Winehouse

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Amy Winehouse

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Amy Winehouse

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Amy Winehouse

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Alexa Chung

DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

Drew Carey

I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

Don King

This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.

Douglas Adams

Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate— 'let it be. It won't be long.' Richard stared in disbelief. 'You say there's a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?' The Professor looked blankly at him.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Marya Hornbacher

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Milton Friedman

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Mikhail Bulgakov

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Marguerite Yourcenar

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

Nathan Lane

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

Naomi Campbell

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

Nadine Gordimer

The facts are always less than what really happened.