Famous Quotes & Sayings

Van Wyck Brooks

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

William Cowper

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

Orlando Gibbons

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

Epictetus

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

Epictetus

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

Ramakrishna

Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

Rainn Wilson

I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

Joan Chen

I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

Carrie Underwood

I thought about deviating from that and singing other things, but then I thought, 'Well, if I don't win ... this is what I want to do after the show, so it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.'

Pierce Brosnan

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

Trey Songz

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Robert Wyatt

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

Robert Wyatt

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Robert Plant

When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.

Sarah Vaughan

They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.

Sara Shepard

Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.

William Gambler

He got a chance to go on American Bandstand and travel up to New York to the Apollo and so forth. He still didn't make a whole lot of money, but at least his name was spreading.

Wally Schirra

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

Wally Schirra

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one

Paul McEntire

In the Apollo program, you're figuring out trajectories to get people to the moon, ... And in the world of investments, the field is in its infancy in terms of the science of investing.

Jack W. Szostak

I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

Martin Rees

The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history of our planet. Neil Armstrong was at the cusp of the Apollo programme. This was a collective technological effort of epic scale, but his is the one name sure to be remembered centuries hence.

Jerry Herman

All else being equal, we believe investors should use weakness to buy shares, as the business model of Apollo remains superior to its post-secondary peers and to many public companies with loftier valuations.

Andrew Chaikin

After the third mission, Apollo became not a gateway to exploration, but a singular moment, ... From Earth to the Moon.

Neil Armstrong

It will be expensive, it will take a lot of energy and a complex spacecraft. But I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo (space program) in 1961.