Shanthakumari Quotes & Sayings

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing with me. That's the difference between the kind of musician I like to work with and singing with a musician who thinks he has to accompany me. That is so annoying I cannot tell you. — Helen Merrill

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians. — Jimmy Wales

Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them. — Harvey MacKay

I offer you a fable for our times...
A magic box sits in your pocket with all the knowledge and music and entertainment of the world contained within it.
If you opened this box and looked down into it...
...How could you ever possibly look up again?
- Larry Ferrell (Unfollow) — Rob Williams

I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which makes me lose respect for certain photographers. Sometimes it's worth it to spend money on a good idea, but wasting money makes me ill. — Peter Menzel

Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right? — S.A. Tawks

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me. — Shirley Manson

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else. — Philip Yancey

So ... I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know, more than they should. And I get totally sucked in by this ridiculous, tiny fur coat. The kind of coat a baby might need to go to the ballet. In Moscow. In 1918. To match her tiny pearls. — Rainbow Rowell

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it. — Guy Pearce

I shudder to tell that many of our people, harassed by the madness of excessive hunger, cut pieces from the buttocks of the Saracens already dead there, which they cooked, but when it was not yet roasted enough by the fire, they devoured it with savage mouth — Edward M. Peters

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be. — John C. Maxwell

The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport. — Robert A. Heinlein