Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Gabaldon

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Janis Joplin

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Carl Sandburg

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

Bruce Willis

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Brian McKnight

I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.

Brandon Marshall

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

Charlaine Harris

The fundamentalists were equally stymied. “We were worried about Adam and Steve,” a Baptist minister said. “Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?

Billy Bragg

Baptists burn more slowly.

William Faulkner

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

Gerhard Richter

I am ridiculously old-fashioned.

Jackie Jackson

I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.

Sally Quinn

Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.

Robertson Davies

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

William S. Burroughs

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.