Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Racine

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

Eric Clapton

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

Elvis Costello

There's no such thing as an original sin.

Guy Ritchie

I'm single again and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm loving it at the moment. This is what I've been missing.

Harry Chapin

I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?

J. I. Packer

There are no small sins against a great God

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

We recruited him to come here and play football, not to look cute. He's been doing that ever since Day One.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

We islanders have songs to sing and stories to tell.

Candace Bushnell

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

Jarvis Cocker

Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

Jane Lynch

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

Fulton J. Sheen

Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.

Frank Miller

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

Frank Miller

When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.

Christina Aguilera

Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

Chris Robinson

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

Harry Dean Stanton

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

Greta Garbo

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

Gladys Knight

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

Geri Halliwell

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

Gerard Butler

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

Herman Melville

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

Herb Alpert

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

Henry David Thoreau

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

Henry David Thoreau

Live the life you've dreamed.

Jill Scott

Singing and acting suit me. I made a vow to myself, to do everything that I can do with this life that I have, and I have to find the time to do this. Sometimes I need to be an actress. Sometimes I don't need to be Jill.