William Watson Quotes

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

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• On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Light
  • Action

• I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Remember
  • Eye
  • Away

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Club

• I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Professional

• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Light
  • Single

• The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Everyone

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Career
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Problem

• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Song
  • You
  • Band

• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

  Young Thug
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Camera

• 'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.

  

  Sampha
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Leave

• Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Eye
  • Door

• Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Eye
  • Story
  • Police

• Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Song
  • You
  • Like

• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Fade

• I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • People
  • Mind
  • Heart

• We have fans that come up all the time and say, 'This song helped me through this tough time in my life' or whatever. The music helps us through it, too.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Life
  • Song
  • Helped

• I want to produce and direct and write one day.

  

  Lily Collins

• Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

  

  William Watson
  • Song
  • Light
  • Eye