Performed Quotes
457 Performed quotes by 406 unique authors
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He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror…
— K D Lang
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But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of…
— Hugh MacLennan
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Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted
— Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
— Koichi Tanaka
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My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited…
— Martin Van Buren
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Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all…
— Robert Plant
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There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
— Adrian Mitchell
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My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is…
— Robert Fulton
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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
— Allan Massie
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Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once…
— Genghis Khan
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A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.
— Joseph Pilates
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Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful…
— Robert Greenberg
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A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we…
— Kelly Jones
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Great music is better than it can be performed.
— Artur Schnabel
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I have spoken to Paul and he is now talking to his family and seeing where his future lies, whether it be here or back…
— Nigel Worthington
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Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a…
— Max Lucado
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I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to…
— Nick Mancuso
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There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to…
— Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well,…
— Sadegh Hedayat
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Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning…
— Susan Griffin
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous…
— Jason Epstein
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Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance…
— Randy Alcorn
Who Wrote These Performed Quotes
406 authors contributed a total of 457 Performed Quotes, led by these top contributors: