It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever… — Shura Copy Share Image
Baal-hamon, one of Baal's names, means "the lord of wealth or abundance." Chuck Pierce believes, and I agree, that this is the… — Dutch Sheets Copy Share Image
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine… — J. Tillman Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal… Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We pray youll know Gods love more abundant in your life and know how much youre valued as a Mother and a… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse,… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Mother's Day is also the perfect time for reminding your mother that you recognize what a high and holy calling motherhood is.… — Bible Copy Share Image
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If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
Every time we equip the church with a verse, chapter or a story from the Bible, we're really placing another weapon in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
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I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to… — Dave Haywood Copy Share Image
Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
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I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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