Songster Quotes & Sayings

Tomorrow I shall write something beautiful, something so serene
that storms will rise suddenly and protest with ferocious screams.
I shall write poems for the poets and for the songster a single song
That will tell a tale of such beauty the heart of earth shall moan.
But today, today shall be special for all I will do
is sit quietly alone and think of you and think of you. — Tonny K. Brown

In my deepest self I know this, and the knowledge has kept me from sinking. — Lena Dunham

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. — J.M. Barrie

1. Whose problem is this?
2. What can I do to help him experience the problem?
3. What am I doing to keep him from experiencing the problem? — Henry Cloud

It matters more how governments behave than how big they are. — Geoff Mulgan

I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising! — John Godfrey Saxe

I always feel like out of every session that I do, whether it's a record session or even a concert, I like to think that there was something in there that I didn't do before. That's my goal. — Buddy DeFranco

Let go of consistency, let go of certainty. Learn to live with the waves of change and uncertainty. — Debasish Mridha

Wow, brains as well as boobs. — William Goldman

United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being. — Matt Busby

DONNA: She doesn't like office equipment, so we let her come out here and tear up office equipment. For people who don't like TVs, they can break TVs. If you don't like cars, you can break cars. If you don't like living-room things, you can break living-room things. Do you have something that you don't like? KARL: Vandalism. So this doesn't really work for me, does it? — Karl Pilkington

To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid "big" sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God? — Francois Fenelon

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets. — Simone Weil

HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance. — Ambrose Bierce

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works. — John Diamond

What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed. — Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them. Therefore it is the king of a hundred streams. — Lao-Tzu

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything. — Philip Roth