Tennille Quotes & Sayings

it always bothered me to know that the right to have a cool drink of water on a hot Alabama day could depend simply on the color of a person's skin. — Toni Tennille

There's something that's very human about 'Warriorv that brings you out. You're watching the movie and, yeah, there's fighting - there's a tournament at the end of the movie - but it takes a long time to get to know these people. — Tom Hardy

I'm the 'Muskrat Love' girl. — Toni Tennille

In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater. — Toni Tennille

I just don't read reviews, because it can really hurt you. — Toni Tennille

There was a period after my first solo album came out that about 50 per cent of my work was with symphonies and big bands. We did the Captain and Tennille as well, but it ended up being about 50-50. — Toni Tennille

He laughed. You're actually kind of cute. You should totally wear that your first day of school. — C.L.Stone

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store. — Toni Tennille

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us. — John Flavel

Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on. — Toni Tennille

I'm not going to be rockin' n' rollin' when I'm 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you're 50. — Toni Tennille

It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if the remainder do. And I think if they can learn something from us in terms of our system, and I think they have, they are learning more about how to unleash the potential of their citizenry to turn out more goods and services that their citizens want or that we want, I think that's terrific. — Howard Warren Buffett

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. — Karl Kraus

The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. — Joey Ramone

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage. — Toni Tennille

Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you. — Toni Tennille

I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day. — Toni Tennille

Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality. — Abraham J. Twerski

In 1972 through '74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don't know, a hundred bucks a night. — Toni Tennille

I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I'm the good Southern daughter. I'm not outrageous. — Toni Tennille

Please, tell me the truth.
The truth, who knows the truth?
You've heart knows the truth. — Oscar Wilde

My heart is with the standards. That's what I was raised on. I'm perfectly comfortable with pop. I feel lucky because I'm pretty versatile. — Toni Tennille

The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me. — Toni Tennille

Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe it. It's like, how is this possible? — Toni Tennille

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. — Barry Commoner

I've never been more sure of anything in my life than I am of the fact that I love you and I can't stop loving you. I tried. God knows I tried, because I didn't think you'd ever be able to let me love you like I wanted to. But I failed, and now I love you even more than I did before. — Catherine Gayle

Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity. — Christine Caine

The universe uses every experience you have to help you grow and learn. No experience is wasted. Every choice you make and everything that happens to you because of other people's choices become your perfect lessons. As you learn to trust this truth, you will experience less fear and more peace. — Kimberly Giles

The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album. — Toni Tennille