Ruth Brown Quotes

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.

Ruth Brown

Quotes to Explore

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

Yogi Berra
- Up
- Growing
- Golf
Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

Malin Akerman
- You
- Kind
- Seeing
Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.

Taylor Jenkins Reid
- People
- Why
- Night
I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.

FKA twigs
- People
- Fun
- Attention
If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

Floyd Skloot
- Mind
- Why
- Car
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

Ferdinand de Saussure
- Different
- Contribution