Carl Sagan Quotes, Song Quotes, Years Quotes

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

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I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Song Quotes , Mean Quotes

And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Song Quotes , Silence Quotes

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Song Quotes , Apollo Quotes

His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Song Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a song of a human being which is produced in accordance with all the rules of music; for we very much sooner weary of the latter, if it is repeated often and at length. Here, however, we probably confuse our participation in the mirth of a little creature that we love, with the beauty of its song; for if this were exactly imitated by man (as sometimes the notes of the nightingale are) it would seem to our ear quite devoid of taste.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Song Quotes , Men Quotes

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart . . .

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Song Quotes , Heart Quotes

There's a bit less elbow room and latitude to take it somewhere else, at least at festivals. In the club you can do whatever you want but at festivals, especially Ultra, nowadays the crowd wants to hear our songs.

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Tags : A-Trak Quotes , Song Quotes , Somewhere Else Quotes

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

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

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Song Quotes , Triumph Quotes

Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Song Quotes , Home Quotes

God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Song Quotes , Men Quotes

And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Song Quotes , Larks Quotes

But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Song Quotes , Long Quotes

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Song Quotes , Men Quotes

Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Song Quotes , Children Quotes

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

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

You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since the edges of these months are yours and defer To you, either of them suits your praises. The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm, Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Song Quotes , Spring Quotes

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Soccer Quotes , Song Quotes