Songstress Quotes & Sayings

I love Aretha [Franklin] and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had this incredible voice. I remember when she was singing gospel in her father's church. — Stevie Wonder

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman. — Brendan Fraser

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig. — Tom Hanks

Instill respect for teachers. — Henry Louis Gates

To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave disservice if you read around words you don't know, or worse, merely guess at what they mean without bothering to look them up.
For me, reading has always been not only a quest for pleasure and enlightenment but also a word-hunting expedition, a lexical safari. — Charles Harrington Elster

It's sad how things devolve, how if you hear just the early part of Freddie and Veronica's story, this romantic romp between a blue-eyed guitarist and knobby-knuckled songstress, you imagine they'll go on forever. — Michele Young-Stone

I settled in to watch a Dragnet rerun. I bought the judge in four of Jack Webb's drunk-driving beefs. I shtupped Jack's ex-wife, soaring songstress Julie London. — James Ellroy

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate. — John Denham