Bessie Smith Quotes
It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
Bessie Smith
Quotes to Explore
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
Laura Wilkinson
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
Vicki Lawrence
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
Ian Mckellen
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
Damon Lindelof
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
Dan Pink
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
Garrison Keillor
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
U2
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
Larry Wilcox
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
Vic Tayback
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
Sally Kirkland
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But words - words are not enough!
Klaus Kinski
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I actually often write about writing music and being in that zone.
Kurt Vile
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As an actress, if you find inspiration through my work, then my job is complete.
Masiela Lusha
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My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.
Cory Booker
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'Wouldn't you like to come in and have a cup of tea and dry off?''Lady, don't you realize that we don't even have time to pull up our shorts?''Pull up your shorts?''YES, PULL UP OUR SHORTS!' I screamed at her and walked off into the wall of water.
Charles Bukowski
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It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
Bessie Smith
