Patti LaBelle Quotes

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

Patti LaBelle

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• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• I have a smile 24/7.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Smile

• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Smile

• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • End
  • Smile

• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • God
  • Done
  • Power

• My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Children
  • Husband

• I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Change
  • Personality
  • Smile

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Smile

• 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Smile

• Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Me
  • Feel
  • See

• After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Health
  • Husband
  • Smile

• I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Smile
  • Smugness
  • Lopsided Mouth

• I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Travel

• You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Men
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich

• Dump the reds in a pile, boysDump the reds in a pileYou'd better wipe off that smile, boysBetter wipe off that smileWe'll spit through the streets of the cities we wreckWe'll find you a leader that you can't electThose treaties we signed were a pain in the neck'Cause we're the cops of the world, boysWe're the cops of the world.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • World
  • Pain
  • Smile

• Message on the Golden Record of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched into space 5 September 1977, as quoted at 'Howdy, Strangers' at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory News (19 August 2002)

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Space
  • September
  • August

• The irony of her story is merely that her love became, in the end, her motive rather than her goal, the doorway rather than the house.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • House

• Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Sports

• Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Faith
  • Questions
  • Eliminate

• I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

  

  Patti LaBelle
  • Smile