Begin The Beguine Quotes & Sayings

People fear death even more than they fear pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. — Jim Morrison

I do realise how incredibly lucky I am. — Hugh Bonneville

That night, though, Dick wakes up crying, but happy too, the bitter aftertaste of a happy ending in his mouth. — Stephen Graham Jones

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. — Sonia Sotomayor

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness. — Francis Bacon

It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something. — Tahar Rahim

A mirror reflects appearance but only actions reflect beauty — Janna Cachola

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy. — Robert Browning

As long as our voiced were in harmony, it didn't matter that our accents were at war. — Carsten Jensen

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away. — Sonia Rykiel

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat. — Artie Shaw

A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience. — Evan Esar

When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you. — Mickey Rourke

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. — Adam Johnson

My absolute favorite pieces are 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Begin the Beguine.' I play these when I am working. — Wilbur Smith