Misconstruing Def Quotes & Sayings

I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is. — Jessye Norman

If you're going to do something in your life do it 100%. Don't question it just go after it. If you don't believe in it or you're not honest with yourself it's not going to work and that's just something that I learned over the years. — Kevin Martin

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself. — Tyrone Guthrie

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws. — Rodney Brooks

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes. — John C. Maxwell

Better than putting things in the attic you never use again. This way, you get to live the summer over for a minute or two here or there along the way through the winter, and when the bottles are empty the summer's gone for good and no regrets and no sentimental trash lying about for you to stumble over forty years from now. Clean, smokeless, efficient, that's dandelion wine.
(page 266 in the 1975 hardback) — Ray Bradbury

Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture. — Eve Ensler

I seek the crucial region of the soul where absolute Evil and fraternity clash. — Andre Malraux

Lace it with Ex-Lax. It will do her some good. — Molly Harper

I made a promise. The kind of promise you don't break because, if you break it you've broken part of yourself, maybe the most important part. — Rick Yancey

I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women. — Vijay Kumar

You'd better go now; I don't think Miggs could manage again so soon, even if he is crazy, do you? — Thomas Harris

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain. — Sarah Brightman

Three most important things in life, surf, surf and surf. — Jack O'Neill