Basies Blues Quotes & Sayings

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed. — Kate Smith

Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose? — Cornelia Funke

It's not like America's view of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle is going to change. There are some things that are going to change and some things that are not going to change. — Immortal Technique

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them. — Fred Thompson

You can't become who you're supposed to be if you keep looking back on what might have been. - Alexis — Candace Knoebel

Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted. — Dada Bhagwan

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. — Beau Bridges

Focus your mind and you can create whatever you want. Sometimes, just believe and let the Universe work out the details. It may deliver the results in ways you could not have imagined. — Russell Anthony Gibbs

I'm lost, but I'm hopeful. — Alanis Morissette

Mine was bright green with gold swirls. Adam's was black.
"You have no imagination," I told him smugly. "It wouldn't hurt if you found a pink ball to bowl with."
"All the pink balls have kid-sized holes in them," he told me. "The black balls are the heaviest."
I opened my mouth, but he shut me up with a kiss. "Not here," he said. "Look next to us."
We were being observed by a boy of about five and a toddler in a frilly pink dress.
I raised my nose in the air. "As if I were going to joke about your ball. How juvenile. — Patricia Briggs

I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do. — Rayne Hall

Be not too hasty," said Imlac, "to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men. — Samuel Johnson

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue. — Lyall Watson

I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me. — Jonathan Frakes

But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For these pitiful creatures are concerned not only to find what one or the other can worship, but to find community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity from the beginning of time. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword. They have set up gods and challenged one another, Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky