Sara Bareilles Quotes

I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

Sara Bareilles

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• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Start

• Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Real
  • Focus
  • New

• Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Fall
  • Moment
  • Try

• Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Universe
  • Focus
  • Perception

• I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Live
  • Fall

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Age
  • Focus
  • Gift

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • Fall
  • Humility

• One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Love
  • Dark
  • English

• It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Focus
  • Sometimes
  • Easy

• If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Family
  • Focus
  • Football

• I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren't good. I mucked around, you know, a phase everyone went through.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

  

  Tacitus
  • Fall
  • Service
  • Chance

• The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Way
  • Fall

• You shout in your sleep. Perhaps the price is just too steep. Is your conscience at rest if once put to the test? You awake with a start to just the beating of your heart. Just one man beneath the sky, Just two ears, just two eyes.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Rest

• Think about what happens on Earth when you throw up. You throw up and you have a bag of something horrible and then you throw it away, but if I have this bag, what am I going to do with it? This bag is going to stay with me in space for months, so we want a really good barf bag.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Up
  • Good
  • Earth

• Shared laughter is erotic too.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Laughter
  • Erotic

• Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Funny
  • President
  • Humor

• I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Fall
  • Focus
  • Sky