A. S. Byatt Quotes, Dream Quotes, Song Quotes

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

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The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Song Quotes

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Song Quotes , Owl Quotes

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Song Quotes , Religion Quotes

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

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Tags : Aaron Tippin Quotes , Song Quotes , Hands Quotes

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Mother Quotes , Song Quotes

Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Song Quotes , Cheer Quotes

I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Song Quotes , Thinking Quotes

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Song Quotes , Choices Quotes

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Song Quotes , Later In Life Quotes

Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Song Quotes , Simple Quotes

We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.

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Tags : Aaron Dessner Quotes , Song Quotes

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Song Quotes

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Song Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Running Quotes , Song Quotes

I never try and force-feed any song idea or lyrical message. It's really what's on my mind and what comes out of me. And a lot of these lyrics are metaphors for specific life situations that I've been through, and in most cases, the struggles. Something about human beings wearing sadness heavily on their sleeve inspires me to make something uplifting about the situation.

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Tags : Aaron Bruno Quotes , Uplifting Quotes , Song Quotes

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Song Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Song Quotes

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Song Quotes , Hymns Quotes

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Song Quotes , Keys Quotes