Songbenders Quotes & Sayings

I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay. I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food. We don't have a "no junk food" rule - I just want them to think about their choices. — Michelle Obama

Did you know the English wouldn't dream of putting olive oil on food? They use it for ear infections. Freddie told me."
"Yes, I've heard their cuisine hasn't evolved since the Middle Ages. — Glenn Haybittle

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules. — Mike Mills

I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that - years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day. — Agatha Christie

The question, then, is not "Is story telling science?" but "Can science learn to tell good stories?" (p. 50) — Irving Seidman

Like isolated apartment dwellers running the TV for company, we sense a deeper isolation beneath the babble of voices, the poverty of our communications. — Mark Slouka

The husband and wife? Like that couple that had — James Patterson

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives. — Francis Ford Coppola

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. — David Hume

I uttered his name like a silent whisper of the falling rain - saying love is his game as the cool breeze sets in.- Elizabeth's Shorter Poems — Elizabeth E. Castillo

Listen up, BIG SHOTS, BIGWIGS, and MUCKETY-MUCKS! What am I dressed for?" I'll ask.
Success!" they'll yell.
And what do clothes make?" I'll ask.
The man!" they'll answer.

Then it should come as no surprise when I say,
I GOT BIG PLANS! BIG PLANS, I SAY!"

I'm in!" says the mynah bird. — Bob Shea

In Sweden, everyone is assumed to have similar resources, so it seems inappropriate to pay for someone else. — Christina Johansson Robinowitz