Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

Charles Lamb

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Carl Jung

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Billy Sunday

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Bessie Smith

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

Charles Kuralt

Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

Agnes de Mille

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Dan Donegan

When it comes down to vocals, I want to hear something that's going to be melodic. David's always had those animalistic instincts of making those gut sounds, or whatever you want to call it. But he's developed a really strong singing voice.

Elvis Presley

When I was a child, ladies and gentleman, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bed -- without a song." So I keep singing my song.

Katie Lowes

I love singing! I was a musical theater girl in high school. We were always singing and dancing around, and just doing little community theaters and high school musicals. Then, when I got to NYU, I focused more on drama.

Jon Nicholson

We found her singing at a blues bar, ... where she was waitressing.

Jim Angell

We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people stomping their feet. They're not so much singing along, unless they know the words and then they get started.

Alan Jackson

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

Alain Resnais

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

Al Jarreau

I would still be singing, because it's part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up. Find something you would do for free.

Chris Colfer

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

Anne Sullivan

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Anne Sullivan

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Jeff Kinney

Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!

John Perkins

We're aware that there's a worldwide shortage of refinery capacity and to that extent, we've let it be known that we'd be amenable to discussing the possibility in Nova Scotia, and we have had discussions with a couple of parties.

Frederick Saunders

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Frederick Saunders

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!

Arthur Frank Burns

As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?

Houssaye Houssaye

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.