Performed Quotes

457 Performed quotes by 406 unique authors

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of… — Terry Eagleton
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able… — Black Elk
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much… — Black Elk
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. — Arthur Erickson
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and… — James Fenton
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. — Alfred Hitchcock
My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen. — Janet Jackson
It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same… — LaToya Jackson
I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that… — Katherine Jenkins
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not… — Samuel Johnson
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. — Michael Korda
I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out… — Steve Lacy
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the… — Yo-Yo Ma
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000. — Neville Marriner
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. — Demetri Martin
The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. — George Mason
There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly. — Bryant H. McGill
I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way. — Ewan McGregor
In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the… — Howard Schultz
And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once,… — Wallace Shawn
The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' — Will Smith
I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I… — Jordin Sparks
I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as… — Bruce Springsteen

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