Gewgaw Quotes & Sayings

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing. — Dominic Chianese

I've taken this year to concentrate fully on the promotion of 'The Lady.' This movie has been so meaningful; until we have premiered in every part of the world and encouraged as many people as possible to shine the spotlight on the Burmese people and Daw Suu, I will not have a next project. — Michelle Yeoh

A complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm. — Umberto Eco

God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings. — Edward T. Welch

Many Americans celebrate both Christmas and Xmas. Others celebrate one or the other. And some of us celebrate holidays that, although unconnected with the [winter] solstice, occur near it: Ramadan, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. — John Silber

To my sister who believed in me. — Gabrielle Michael

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point. — Michael Sheen

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if anyone else can do it well, it's only because they're like us.' I think more men are starting to learn that this attitude is totally hollow and based in imagination. As more women are involved in music, this kind of thing gets said less and less. — Esperanza Spalding

Do not betray the people. — Muqtada Al Sadr

We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then. — Robert Webb

We think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity. — Mark Batterson

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art. — Elizabeth Gaskell

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny. — Manly Hall