Engelbert Quotes & Sayings

From time to time people who knew us both would try to get us to make up. "Life's too short, Tom." But I'd only get bullish about that. "Too right. Life's too short to be fucking about with Engelbert Humperdinck. — Tom Jones

Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding. — Daphne Du Maurier

At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck. — Engelbert Humperdinck

Friends are people who are in your life because you feel good around them and you like them. Friends are the people you choose to be with. — Bonnie St. John

I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here. — Hugh Laurie

I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind. — Lindsey Vonn

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart. — Engelbert Humperdinck

Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive. — Kailash Kher

If I have to describe the India-US relationship in a single word, I will say we are natural allies. I think the relationship between India and US, and the two countries in themselves, have played an enormously important role and continue to play an important role in strengthening democratic values all over the world. — Narendra Modi

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. — Josh Billings

Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. He used to entertain them at his house. — Marcel Proust

An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it's an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning. — Ryu Si-won

I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst. — Kabir

Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing. — Henry David Thoreau

We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. — Seth Godin

You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute. — Nicholas Sparks

Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and comedians. You'd go in and Tom Jones might be singing, or Shirley Bassey or Engelbert Humperdinck. — Francis Lee

Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark ... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains. — Dwight D. Eisenhower