Chorus Quotes
194 quotes by 168 authors
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Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the…
— Edith Piaf
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The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to…
— Freddie Hubbard
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When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is…
— Laura Story
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People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
— Prince Philip
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When the kirtan is harmonious with so many people, it’s a tumultuous beautiful sound. We can’t hear just one voice during the chorus; or rather…
— Radhanath Swami
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I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.
— Sharni Vinson
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Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
— Robert Burns
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Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the frightful vengeance they…
— Winston Churchill
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Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how…
— Calvin Trillin
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The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the…
— Janet Malcolm
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me…
— Cees Nooteboom
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What an invaluable handbook! Lori A. May has done her research, knows her stuff, and, whats best, lets the programs speak for themselves through her…
— Molly Peacock
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If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.
— Dale Carnegie
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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed,…
— Pete Seeger
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Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.
— Joanna Baillie
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I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as…
— Mark Galli
Who Wrote These Chorus Quotes
168 authors contributed a total of 194 Chorus Quotes, led by these top contributors: