Skaiva Jaceviciute Quotes & Sayings

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page. — Kathleen Battle

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything. — Christine Baranski

A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love. — Hani

The poor prayed to become rich, and the rich prayed to become richer. — Barbara Wood

My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared. — Cath Crowley

The towering tents are striped in white and black, no golds and crimsons to be seen. No colour at all, save for the neighbouring trees and grass of the surrounding fields. Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colourless world. Even what little ground is visible from outside is black or white, painted or powdered, or treated with some other circus trick. — Erin Morgenstern

I really expect a lot of myself. — Mark Teixeira

When the choice came down to tears, strong drink, or potatoes, one chooses potatoes. She — Laurie R. King

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds. — Andrejs Upits

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them. — Idries Shah

The thunder of horses' hooves grows ever louder, but, still, I do not move. The thunder of those hooves, the thudding of my heart, and the gasping in my lungs make such a cacophony, it's a wonder I hear Edmund at all. — Suzanna J. Linton

Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age. — Frederick Lenz

Farewell my friends, I go to glory. — Isadora Duncan

Some genius of the South
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. — Jean Toomer

Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility, because I was quite egotistical, I thought I was quite wonderful. — Frederick Lenz