Famous Quotes - Tags - Singer
- (Non! Rien de rien.... Non, je ne regrette rien! Ni le bien qu’on m’a fait, Ni le mal. Tout... More
- A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that... More
- A song is anything that can walk by itself. More
- A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. More
- A woman’s two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business. More
- Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now. More
- All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all... More
- Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to... More
- And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain,
I’ll state my case of which... More
- At last God caught his eye. More
- Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can’t really put my finger on it, but... More
- Brothers and sisters rocking, a dread beat pulsing fire, burning. More
- But even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked. More
- Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for... More
- Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens... More
- Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t... More
- Democracy don’t rule the world,
You’d better get that in your head;
This world is... More
- Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at... More
- Don’t follow leaders
Watch the parkin’ meters. More
- Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people... More
- Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel... More
- Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual... More
- Everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s... More
- For them that think death’s honesty
Won’t fall upon them naturally
Life... More
- Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. More
- His role was as the gentle teacher, the logical, compassionate, caring and articulate teacher,... More
- History is a needle
for putting men asleep
anointed with the poison
Of all they want... More
- I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move. More
- I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the... More
- I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass... More
- I did it, I did it, I did it! More
- I don’t want to know about the constitution of the rapist—I want to kill him! I don’t care... More
- I had to say something
To strike him very weird,
So I yelled out,
“I like Fidel... More
- I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being... More
- I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will... More
- I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a... More
- I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the... More
- I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now,
I... More
- I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am... More
- I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his... More
- I wish not to be given a title or an appointed position. I can and will do more good if I were... More
- I wouldn’t have turned out the way I was if I didn’t have all those old-fashioned values to... More
- If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be. More
- Improvisation is too good to leave to chance. More
- In ceremonies of the horsemen,
Even the pawn must hold a grudge. More
- In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. More
- In Hollywood now when people die they don’t say, “Did he leave a will?” but “Did he leave... More
- In my day, we didn’t have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and... More
- In the dime stores and bus stations,
People talk of situations,
Read books, repeat... More
- In writing songs I’ve learned as much from Cézanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. More
- Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt... More
- It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make... More
- It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in... More
- It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain’t got any friends. More
- I’d hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that’s as good as... More
- I’m anal retentive. I’m a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I’m a control freak. That’s... More
- I’m glad I’m not me! More
- I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Believe me, honey, rich is better. More
- I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said,... More
- I’ve never had a humble opinion in my life. If you’re going to have one, why bother to be... More
- Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not... More
- Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly... More
- Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down. More
- Maybe in the ‘90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the ‘80s as the age... More
- Money doesn’t talk, it swears. More
- Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. More
- People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed... More
- Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a... More
- Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in... More
- Sailin’ ‘round the world in a dirty gondola
Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! More
- Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we... More
- She knows there’s no success like failure
And that failure’s no success at all. More
- She really is a woman just like my mum. More
- Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets... More
- Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to... More
- Something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones? More
- Sometimes you’re overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the... More
- Success to me is having ten honeydew melons, and eating only the top half of each one. More
- The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind. More
- The fact that white people readily and proudly call themselves “white,” glorify all that is... More
- The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. More
- The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As... More
- The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the... More
- The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. More
- The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the... More
- The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at. More
- The secret of a long life is knowing when it’s time to go. More
- The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a... More
- The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And... More
- There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right.... More
- There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. More
- There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won’t. More
- There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you... More
- They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot. More
- They’ll stone you when you’re riding in your car.
They’ll stone you when you’re... More
- This land is your land & this land is my land—sure—but the world is run by those that... More
- This land is your land, this land is my land,
From California to the New York... More
- To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the... More
- To live outside the law, you must be honest. More
- To me, the whole process of being a brushstroke in someone else’s painting is a little difficult. More
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