Songbeat Quotes & Sayings

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. — Ken Burns

There is nothing firm or stable in a life spent between larking about together and quarrelling, exuberant one moment, aggrieved and resentful the next. You are forever pondering pros and cons, endlessly absorbed in questions of gain and loss. And on top of delusion comes drunkenness, and in that drunkenness you dream. — Yoshida Kenko

Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred. — Richard Pryor

Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious. — Paul Tournier

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years. — Sara Zarr

'And I promise not to keep assuming that living in the sticks means you're inbred trailer trash if you'll stop supposing that I'm an asshole just because I grew up in a place big enough for traffic lights.'
A hint of a smile played at the corner of Chris's mouth. 'Can I still think you're an asshole for other reasons?' — Kim Fielding

Having a system for thinking deeper can provide greater insight into solving everyday problem. Such a system is shared in my book, Medical Investigation 101. — Dr. Russ Hill

He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made each of us and loved us since we were in our mother's womb — Ann Rinaldi

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young. — Dakota Fanning

Desperate people do foolish things, don't be one of them. — Jenni Young

I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard - I must keep armed. — Billy Graham