Franceschi Quotes & Sayings

I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things. — Charlotte Bronte

Love is blind, definitely. You never know someone truly or properly, that's what I've discovered. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me. — J. Cole

The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything. — Hunter S. Thompson

the first step towards greatness is taking the first step — Michael Wright

People when they're growing up they just want to fit in, there are a lot of social pressures on young people today to kind of have it all figured out and know what they want to do, know who they are straight away and I've always tried to embrace that sense of pressure, but I've got people around me that do as well. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Do you have children? she asked.
No.
Why?
The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children. — Alessandro Baricco

I wouldn't change any part of my life that I've lived up until now. I kind of believe in fate a little bit and I believe that whether it be good or bad, everything is happening for a reason regardless of how good or how terrible it is. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Prayer is the link that connects us with God. — A.B. Simpson

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money. — Gene Tierney

I might take what I do very seriously, but at least I'm doing something, rather than sitting on my arse and being no-one. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader." — Abbott Lawrence Lowell

It was made to fail, born to be co-opted and subsumed into the junky ferrywake of media's coaching. — David Foster Wallace

When she had achieved almost everything she wanted in life, she had reached the conclusion that her existence had no meaning, because every day was the same. And she had decided to die. — Anonymous

I guess I just use the word vibe in pretty much everyday context and every sentence I possibly can. Some people find it hilarious, some people find it cool, some people find it infuriating, but ultimately it's coming out of my mouth so as long as i I like the sound of it who cares too much what anyone else thinks? — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

I do understand that they fall when I'm least able to pay attention because poems fall not from a tree, really, but from the richly pollinated boughs of an ordinary life, buzzing, as lives do, with clamor and glory. They are easy to miss but everywhere: poetry just is, whether we revere it or try to put it in prison. It is elementary grace, communicated from one soul to another. — Barbara Kingsolver

In art, everyone who plays wins. — Robert Genn

Lyrically I address loads of things that I've never talked about before, about me or about other people. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of. — Andy Taylor

I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point of view because deep down you know you can't win. It's better to assert yourself and tell the person you are moving on without them and why, rather than leave a lasting impression of cowardness on your part in a person's mind by avoiding them. — Shannon L. Alder

If I Must Go
If I must go to heaven's end
Climbing the ages like a stair,
Be near me and forever bend
With the same eyes above me there;
Time will fly past us like leaves flying,
We shall not heed, for we shall be
Beyond living, beyond dying,
Knowing and known unchangeably. — Sara Teasdale

I've sacrificed lots of aspects of my personal life to do what I do. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi