Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Carl Jung

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

David Brenner

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

Earl Weaver

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

Eliza Coupe

I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

Benjamin Franklin

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

Bessie Smith

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

Natalie Cole

I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.

Eoin Colfer

Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Bryn Terfel

I started singing because I come from Wales

Bryan Clay

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

Ben Barnes

I love music, and I love singing.

Birdy

It's just me and I try to be myself when I'm singing.

Bette Midler

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Alan Cohen

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Alan Cohen

Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

Alan Cohen

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

Dean Stanley

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

Banksy

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Martha Beck

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

Patrick Whitesell

We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day.

Ludwig von Mises

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.