My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
In the future we will all be famous for 15 minutes. It will be on a daytime magazine programme and we will… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“Sound has a profound effect on the senses. It can be both herd and felt. It can even be seen with the… — Louis E. Colaianni Copy Share Image
Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you?… — Caroline Stevermer Copy Share Image
Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I think the Arab awakening has changed everything and I think a lot will depend on what people there ask of us,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice,… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals… — Abbie Cornish Copy Share Image
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between trolling and just attacking guys to attack guys, to get under people's skin, and to genuinely express… — Adam Cole Copy Share Image
There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice.… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“All I know: I could only encounter you, my oasis, coming out of a desert. Deserted myself. This is all right. My… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my rage, a desire to exert… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Logan, why aren't you wearing protection?" The radio crackled, and then came Logan's voice. "I have 'protection' in my bag," he said.… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
When I was a junior in college I moved to New York and went to this performance school the Experimental Theatre Wing.… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
On many occasions I have been asked if I think persecution will come to the Western church. My answer might surprise you.… — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Anya made you kiss her? Yeah. And at our next stop, I'll expect you to deliver. I'll pay, William piped up. After… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..." He glances towards the car again, and I crouch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is easier to talk about issues; it is easier to say you're a feminist because it's actually awesome to be one.… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image