Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raini Rodriguez

I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

Mick Jagger

Network television, they are always worried about how many times you are going to say f--- on the air. We had a bit of a crisis this morning when they heard Aretha Franklin was going to strip during 'The Star-Spangled Banner.

Ben Sopranzetti

We're a party band. We do mostly covers we play anything from Aretha Franklin to Jackson Brown to Pink.

Jess Glynne

My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.

Kelly Rowland

You have wonderful artists like Patty Labelle and Aretha Franklin that have opened up the door and been able to let us through,

Chet Faker

I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Otis Redding. I think that's where I got my love for a good hook, a good soul hook - really smooth and warm and from the heart.

Natalie Cole

I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.

Patterson Hood

It in no way denies the horrible things that happened in the South during the civil rights struggle, ... The KKK and church bombings - all of those things did happen, but at the same time there were people like my father making Aretha Franklin records, these southern white boys who made their living playing on some of the best soul records ever made.

George H. W. Bush

Generations of Americans have stood in wonder at the style and voice of Aretha Franklin,

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Annika Sorenstam

We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.

Sam Dumont

We stood around a lot and watched and waited for someone else to do the scoring.

Bob Dylan

You've got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning

Greg Simmons

I was the one commissioner that stood up on that matter.

Courtney Adams

We just stood there and watched it burn.

Ron Schiller

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Robert Brown

We two stood there with never a third.

Billy Gillispie

It was terrible zone offense. It's my fault. We stood around and watched.

Helen Clark

Well, look, that's not for me to judge. I have a completely different style.

Steve Riley

We have a lot of influences, but we turn all that into an L.A. Guns' style.

Petrarch

For style beyond the genius never dares.

Petrarch

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

William Shakespeare

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

William Shakespeare

For there was never yet philosoper That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made a push at chance and sufferance.

Alan Watts

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Alain Resnais

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

Al Hirt

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

Samuel Butler

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

English Proverbs

The Psalms are the voices of the church.

Paul Lieberstein

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.

William Shakespeare

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

Hank Azaria

I have no new voices - they've all been used.

William Shakespeare

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

William Shakespeare

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.

Charles Caleb Colton

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

Nancy Roman

I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

Valentino Castellani

We are having a party. A wonderful party.

William Shakespeare

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Catherynne M. Valente

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.