Dessence Smiley Quotes & Sayings

Women are taught that size doesn't matter, that it's the motion in the ocean. But this is a theory propagated by those bright guys with insecurities who need big theories. — Toni Bentley

I don't want a well-ordered life ... I would die from boredom in a fortnight. — Suzanne Enoch

In a survey of historical memory, I asked a hundred Internet users to write down as many wars as they could remember in five minutes. The responses were heavily weighted toward the world wars, wars fought by the United States, and wars close to the present. Though the earlier centuries, as we shall see, had far more wars, people remembered more wars from the recent centuries. — Steven Pinker

Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world. — Dewitt Jones

If it wasn't for flash backs, I wouldn't remember anything at all. — George Clinton

A female vocal can lift a song. — Jessie Ware

I don't make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: 'everything.' Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything! — Aleksandar Hemon

Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do. — James Corden

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it. — Tom T. Hall

I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals. — Neneh Cherry

I had had a classical education prior to that. — Skitch Henderson

The devil won't stay where there is music. — Martin Luther

The words Lafayette used to describe that triumph - "I did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence" - applied to getting his way regarding America as well. Perhaps the most emblematic anecdote foretelling Lafayette's stubborn refusal to give up his American dream was the boyhood story about how one day, one of his Parisian schoolteachers was talking up the virtues of an obedient horse. According to Lafayette, "I described the perfect horse as one which, at the sight of the whip, had the sense to throw his rider to the ground before he could be whipped. — Sarah Vowell

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. — Nikola Tesla

The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece. — Ailyn Perez