Eva Cassidy Quotes

Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me.

Eva Cassidy

• Wake Up
• Troubles
• Lemon
• Find Me

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• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Great
  • Funny

• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Never
  • Jump

• I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Poetry

• Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • You
  • Embrace

• I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Moving
  • Hands
  • Golf

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Country
  • May
  • Fear

• I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Like
  • Child

• I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • People
  • Time
  • Actors

• And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I'll be honest. After I got married, I definitely had a shift in emotional devotion.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Emotional
  • Honest
  • Married

• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • May
  • House
  • Friend

• My work sells for £10,000-plus, but my most lucrative piece was a private project that was sold for more than six figures -dollars, that is. The process of the Lego can take weeks, months, or even days. Each one I deliver to specification to each gallery because they want them brought to them fully formed.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Work
  • Want
  • Process

• I am thrilled to return as Honorary Captain of the GREEKs for HBCUs Team. I reflect fondly on my days at Florida A&M University, and how visible and active all of the sororities and fraternities were. Membership in Black Greek letter organizations on college campuses is preparation for a lifetime of service.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Black
  • Team
  • College

• I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Music
  • Love
  • Think

• In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Wake Up

• Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Men
  • Happiness
  • Troubles

• I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • School
  • Age
  • Drama

• Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps.

  

  Obafemi Awolowo
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Sacrifice

• Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me.

  

  Eva Cassidy
  • Wake Up
  • Troubles
  • Lemon